Recently a Beijing father sent in a quesion at an Internet forum asking what "PK" meant.
"My family has been watching the 'Super Girl' singing competition TV programme. My little daughter asked me what 'PK' means, but i had no idea," explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term.
In such Internet games, "PK" is short for "Player Kill", in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.
In the case of the "Super Girl" singing competition, "PK" was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to complete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking.
Like this puzzled father, Chinese teachers at high schools have aslo been finding their students' compostition using Internet jargon difficult to understand.
A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write up compositions with colloquial language, but they came up with a lot of INternet jargon that she didn't understand.
"My 'GG' came back this summer from college. He told me i've grown up to be a 'PLMM'. i love to 'FB' with him together; he always took me to the 'KPM', went one composition.
If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, referrring to ugly looking female) or a Qing Wa (frog, referring to ugly looking male) is, then you will probably be regarded as a Cai Niao!
