{"id":9184,"date":"2020-08-24T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusp.hk\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2020-08-25T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:30:25","slug":"university-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/?p=9184","title":{"rendered":"University Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Events<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u5927 O (daai6 O) (d\u00e0 O), Big O : College orientation camp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u7d30 O (sai3 O) (x\u00ec O), Small O : Department orientation camp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u4e0a\u838a (soeng5 zong1) (sh\u00e0ng zhu\u0101ng) : Taking up a position in a student society<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u50be\u838a (king1 zong1) (q\u012bng zhu\u0101ng) : An event held by current society committee, during which new committee members meet each other and discuss the formation of the upcoming new cabinet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u591c\u8a71 (je6 waa6) (y\u00e8 hu\u00e0), Night Talk : Casual chit-chatting and deep talks about interpersonal gossips, relationship status and personal aspirations and dreams, etc. late at night, often in the dormitory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u98df\u5bb5 (sik6 siu1) (ch\u012b xi\u0101o) : Eating late night snacks out of campus. CUHK students usually go to Fo Tan and Tai Wai together for the event<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dem Beat : Demonstration of a beat by collective action of clapping hands and rhythmic stomping. The beat of each student body is unique from one another and serves as a strong collective value within the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Academic<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>GPA : Grade Point Average, a reference value of term academic result<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u904e\u4e09\u7206\u56db (gwo3 saam3 baau3 sei3) (gu\u00f2 s\u0101n b\u00e0o s\u00ec), Pass 3 explode 4 : It refers to the situation when one\u2019s GPA is higher than 3.0. It is a blessing to wish other scoring high-flying colors in their study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Character<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u86c7 (se4) (sh\u00e9), Snake : Non-hostel student who live in the dormitories secretly. \u201cSnake\u201d is forbidden in most of the college halls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NDS\/PSP : Nei Di Sheng (putonghua) \/ Putonghua speaking People. Students who come from Mainland China<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Killer : Course instructors who are demanding when evaluating student\u2019s score. They usually give out worse grades and fail more students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Adjective<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u9839 (teoi4) : An adjective to describe people who show no interest and passion on anything<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u647a (zip3) : An adjective to describe people who don\u2019t show up much in gathering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chur : An adjective to describe people who try their best in everything they did to strive for success<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\/\/Italic: Literal translation of the Chinese words (not necessarily exact meaning) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events \u5927 O (daai6 O) (d\u00e0 O), Big O : College orientatio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,392],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusp.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}