Guide to Chinese BL Terms

 A guide made mostly for my own amusement but I hope this helps someone who wants to read Chinese BL novels.

Chinese BL borrows a lot of terms from Japanese BL so you are gonna see some overlap. Also some of these terms are not limited to just BL but are general terms used online. 

功 - seme - the one who tops
受 - uke - the bottom
腐女/腐男 - fujoshi/fudanshi - lit. rotten girl/rotten boy - a term indicating a yaoi (sometimes yuri) fangirl/fanboy. I've also seen the term 腐民 (lit. rotten citizen) used as a general term for fans of BL/GL. 
腐剧 - lit. rotten show - BL TV shows or movies will be labeled with term.
耽美 - it means something akin to single beauty, I usually see this term used to indicate BL novels.
BL - boy's love - this is pretty self explanatory
百合 - lit. lily - yuri - term borrow from Japan to indicate GL
清水 - lit. clear water - indicating a fic that's without explicit sexual content
虐 - lit. oppressive - used to indicate angst/a sad plot/characters suffering
甜 - lit. - used to indicate cute and fluffy fics
HE - stands for happy ending
BE - stands for bad ending
肉/车 - lit. meat/car - indicating a fic that contains explicit sexual content
互功 - lit. mutual seme - a term used for a pairing where both characters can be the seme and usually switch roles during sex
反功 - lit. counter seme - a term used for when the uke wants to top his seme

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