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  • melon laowai, so melon means "fuck off"?

    • As Kuro said below, gua (melon) is an insult meaning stupid (though in Sichuan it is used to mean a drunk, and this song is specifically about drunk foreigners, or party boys/fuckboys, who come to Chengdu to harass women). Xie Di is from Chengdu, all the best Chinese hiphop is from CDC or Xinjiang (in my opinion).

    • In Chinese, plural forms are almost non-existent. The name of the song is 瓜老外, in which 瓜 means stupid, 老外 refers to foreigner (or foreignerS, see? that's what makes things tricky). However, in this context, "瓜老外" refers to a specific type of foreigner, rather than referring to all foreigners in general.

      Melon means stupid, in Mandarin it would be {傻瓜|shagua} meaning stupid melon. Xiedi is speaking in Sichuan dialect