What is the meaning of the Chinese “鸡你太美”?

“鸡” in Chinese means chicken and “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis” ，“你太美” means “you are too beautiful”.In the original lyrics, it was actually ‘only because you’re too beautiful’.I will explain with the article of the author “齐天乐R” on the Chinese Internet platform Bilibili： Firstly, the pronunciation of ‘only because’ in standard Mandarin is:

[ ɖ̥͡ʐɻ̩. （ ʔ) In]

(A small circle above or below indicates “Qinghua”, and the “unaspirated consonants” in Mandarin are somewhat different from ordinary unaspirated consonants.)

Then, because the singer (Swin-s member Cai) is a southerner (originally from Hunan and grew up in Zhejiang), southerners often fail to pronounce the “tongue raising sound” when speaking Mandarin, similar to English j and ch:

[d] ̥͡ʒɹ̩. In]

At the same time, the two characters “only because” in the lyrics are both sixteenth notes, and at this time, the BPM is 107, which translates to a pronunciation time of only 0.138 seconds for each character (about seven words per second, even faster than Huashao)! So this kind of condition cannot achieve a truly perfect ‘word by word’, so these two will inevitably be connected, and the effect is as follows:

[d] ̥͡ʒ I ː N]

At the same time, in the daily use of modern Mandarin Chinese, the nasal ‘v’ vowel ending often does not truly arrive, especially when speaking at a fast pace, in order to ensure fluency; In addition, the next character happens to be the “you” of the initial consonant n, so the final n of “yin” is strongly weakened (in fact, it may have “migrated” to the next character), becoming:

[d] ̥͡ʒ I ː （ ɹ̃)]

This pronunciation, if you can completely shake off the rhyme, is basically a less turbid English pronunciation of “Gee”, and the closest pronunciation in Mandarin happens to be “ji” (the authentic zh+i is not very similar)!

So “Chicken, you’re too beautiful” emerged from the sky.

首先，标准普通话中“只因“的读法是：

[ɖ̥͡ʐɻ̩.(ʔ)in] (上或下带小圈是“清化”，普通话的“不送气清辅音”跟普通的不送气清辅音有点区别)

然后，因为歌唱者(swin-s成员蔡某)是南方人(祖籍湖南，浙江长大)，南方人说普通话时的“翘舌音”往往发不到位，类似于英语j、ch的那樣：

[d̥͡ʒɹ̩.in]

同时，歌词中“只因”两字均为十六分音符，而且此时BPM为107，换算下来每个字一的发音时长仅0.138秒(差不多一秒七个字多一点，比华少还急)！所以这种条件想无法做到真正完美的“一字一顿”，所以这两个难免会连起来，效果如下：

[d̥͡ʒiːn]

同时，现代汉语普通话的日常用语当中，鼻‘v音韵尾往往不会真正到位，尤其是语速快的情况下，为了保证流畅性更是如此；再加上下一个字刚好是n声母的“你”，所以“因”的韵尾n更是被强烈地弱化(实际上可能“迁移”到下一个字上了)，变成了：

[d̥͡ʒiː(ɹ̃)]

这个发音，如果能把韵尾完全甩掉的话，基本上就是一个不太浊的英语“Gee”的发音，在普通话里最接近的发音刚好就是“ji”(正宗的zh+i反而还不太像)！

于是乎“鸡 你 太 美”横空而出。