#kadian

A little question ..

What do you think of this photo ?

YBO really posted it and later deleted ir??

Hi dreams-and-dreamer! 😊

Yes, this image was initially included in the post and was removed from it about a half an hour later. (Weibo keeps a record of the edit history of all posts, so you can always go back and review what was changed and when).

Dragons are awsome

I seem to recall this actually... But I can't remember where or when lol. My folders are too BIG.

He did admit that he pays attention to their lld cp supertopic (ZZH called him out on it during happy camp). And they both know about the kadian for sure since it's used to advertise for their products I believe.

There was a funny incident (source from Amber's TW and xiaobabi's):

Basically, if the solos get rowdy about candy, then it just gives it more credence hahaha, silly.

Disclaimer: All fictional....yadada the usual drill

I want to make a post about kadian since a lot of people have been talking about it recently, trying to decide whether it’s real or fake. I want to offer the perspective of someone that speaks Chinese and goes on Weibo everyday so doesn’t need to rely on translation.

1) Kadian is a thing in general. If you don’t know already, the “kadian” I’m referring to is posting a social media post at a specific time so that the numbers can mean something. From the broadest perspective, kadian is real thing. A lot of companies like to kadian their spokesperson’s birthday (i.e. a chips commercial today just kadian 8:05 to represent WYB’s birthday). So people do take note of when they post Weibo.

2) Using numbers to represent words in Chinese is real. Chinese words have a lot of homonyms. So using numbers that sound like certain words to mean something is definitely a thing. The best example is that 520 is a couples holiday because 5 sounds like “wo = I”, 2 sounds like “ai = love” and 0 sounds like “ni = you” so it’s call the “I love you” holiday. 

3) WYB likes to kadian. This is also true. First, he said during ttxs that he likes to remember special date and time. Second, many of his post, especially recently in Weibo and Oasis ends with “21″ or “20″, which can sound like “ai ni” or “love you”. It’s too frequent to be a coincidence. So WYB does care about when he post Weibo. However, it doesn’t mean every Weibo he post has to be a kadian post. 

4) It’s really easy to come up with words that correspond to numbers. I think this is the main point I was trying to make. Since Chinese words have a lot of homonyms, it’s super easy to just come up with a word that makes sense to represent a number. For example, sometimes, the number 4 can sound like “death”, “time”, “wet”, “lion”, etc. There are also different intonation so basically every sound can have 50+ words with the same pronounciation. So when you see someone translating kadian numbers, just be very wary. 

The more generally accepted kadian words are:

1 = has 2 different pronunciation of the same number (yes, Chinese is weird). One is “yi = ni =you” and the other is “yao = want”. 

2 = er = ai = love

3 = san = zhan

4 = si = shi = life

5 = wu = wo = I 

7 = qi = wife 

8 = ba = bo =WYB

0 = ling = ni 

21 = er yi = ai ni = love you

20 = er ling = ai ni = love you

13 = yi san = yi sheng = whole life or yizhan (thank you @midnightsvoid for pointing it out)

23 = er san = ai zhan = love zhan

14 = yi si = yi shi = one life or whole life

17 = yi qi = together

18 = yi ba = yi bo = WYB

27 = er qi = ai qing/ ai qi = romance/wife

2018 = er ling yi ba = ai ni yi bo = love you WYB

1328 = yi san er ba = yi sheng ai bo = love you whole life WYB

1821 = yi ba er yi = yi bo ai ni = WYB loves you

But trust me, if you were to point a gun at my head and tell me to come up with a coherent sentence in Chinese from a string of any random numbers, I can probably do it. 

5) Be careful of looking at the hour time stamp. Weibo will show time depending on what time zone you’re in. Sometimes people forget and screenshot their own timezone so the hour is off. Make sure you go back and translate to the timezone that’s correct in China if the hour # is significant.

Also, there are 60 minutes in an hour. Unlike the minute, a significantly much shorter time and you really have to be deliberate, 1 hour is a very large window. Which also means there is a lot of room for Type 1 error aka false positives. Sometimes, 11pm at night (23 o’clock) is just when you’re about to go to bed and post something. 

Birthday Boy 🎂🎉🎊

Dd:

(20:03 = “ai zhan”, “love zhan”)

Me:

01:03 yizhan