On microblogs and on social media in China, it was well nigh universal to call the ruler of North Korea J\u012bn s\u0101n p\u00e0ng \u91d1\u4e09\u80d6 (\"Kim Third Fat\" [referring to Kim Jung-un, third in the line of Kims following his father Kim Jung-il and his grandfather Kim Il-sung]) — until the North Korean government caught wind of it and complained to the Chinese government:<\/p>\n
\"North Korea begs China to stop calling Kim Jong Un fat<\/a>\" (FOX News, 11\/15\/16)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This prompted the Chinese government to block references to J\u012bn s\u0101n p\u00e0ng \u91d1\u4e09\u80d6 (\"Kim Third Fat\"):<\/p>\n \"China websites block searches for 'Fatty Kim the Third'<\/a>\" (Reuters, 11\/16\/16)<\/p>\n Chinese netizens promptly adapted by writing\u00a0 J\u012bn s\u0101n p\u00e0ng \u91d1\u4e09\u80d6 (\"Kim Third Fat\") as x\u012bn p\u00e0ng \u946b\u80d6 (\"wealth fat\"), where x\u012bn \u946b is thought of as s\u0101n j\u012bn \u4e09\u91d1 (\"three jin\" [i.e., 'gold \/ Kim']').<\/p>\n If necessary to get around the censors, netizens can also divide p\u00e0ng \u80d6 (\"fat\") into yu\u00e8 \u6708 (\"moon\") and b\u00e0n \u534a (\"half\"), thus j\u012bn s\u0101n yu\u00e8 b\u00e0n \u91d1\u4e09\u6708\u534a (\"Kim \/ gold March \/ three months half\") = J\u012bn s\u0101n p\u00e0ng \u91d1\u4e09\u80d6 (\"Kim Third Fat\").<\/p>\n See these reddit threads:\u00a0 here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n [h.t. Mark Metcalf; thanks to NSBK]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On microblogs and on social media in China, it was well nigh universal to call the ruler of North Korea J\u012bn s\u0101n p\u00e0ng \u91d1\u4e09\u80d6 (\"Kim Third Fat\" [referring to Kim Jung-un, third in the line of Kims following his father Kim Jung-il and his grandfather Kim Il-sung]) — until the North Korean government caught wind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-language-on-the-internets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29372,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29354\/revisions\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}