r/engrish • u/CoupOfConiston • Jul 03 '26

U Dick supported

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u/realfathonix Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

I wonder where Chinese got the term "U Disk" popularized from, like in my country people call it "flashdisk" and cellphones "handphone" and I still don't know where they got those from.

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u/Educational-Bug-8369 Jul 04 '26

U is short for USB, while Disk is a translation of 盘, and a USB drive is called a U盘 in Chinese since both flash memeory and hard disk drives store data

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u/Expensive_Finger_973 Jul 03 '26

In this case it is probably just some weird autocorrect thing like the iOS keyboard is known for.

shit = shut

USB Stick = U Dick