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人肉搜索引擎

Mandarin · pinyin rén ròu sōu suǒ yǐn qíng

(neologism, attested by 2003) human flesh search engine; crowdsourced online search for information about a person or event, typically resulting in doxing (now largely replaced by the clipped form 人肉搜索 rén ròu sōu suǒ)

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人: rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
肉: ròu · flesh; meat; Kangxi radical 130
搜: sōu · search, seek; investigate
索: suǒ · large rope, cable; rules, laws; to demand, to exact; to search, inquire; isolated
引: yǐn · to pull, draw out, attract; to stretch
擎: qíng · lift up, hold up, support

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2–4–1–3–3–2 · ren2 rou4 sou1 suo3 yin3 qing2

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jan4 juk6 sau2 saak3 jan5 king4

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(Internet, neologism, slang) human flesh search engine

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