Chinese Character Creations for Modern Times

You’ll have to be following Chinese internet memes to get all of these, but there are some clever ones:

Created Characters - Chinese Internet Memes
Source

The character creations are fusings of various characters. They are:

Row 1, left: 亚克西

Row 1, right: 贵国

Row 2, left: 代表

Row 2, right: 屁民

Row 3, left: 党中央

Row 3, right: 五毛

I won’t comment on the meanings of these internet memes because I’m not very familiar with all of them, and anyway, this is an apolitical blog. …

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