哈基米

What does 哈基米 mean?

Scroll almost any Chinese cat account and you will run into 哈基米. It works as an affectionate nickname for cats, and it also names a whole family of bouncy remixes built around the sound “ha-ji-mi”, nearly always cut together with cat clips. The word has since drifted into absurdist territory: people staple it onto AI-generated remixes and silly music edits without it meaning anything in particular. That playful emptiness is why it keeps getting filed under 抽象 humor.

Where does 哈基米 come from?

Bilibili is where the sound found its second life. It comes from the anime Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 2, in which the character Tokai Teio hums a little song about her favorite honey drink; Chinese viewers heard the Japanese word as “ha-ji-mi”. Around 2022 a creator on the platform set that humming to a well-known anime tune and combined it with cat footage, and from 2023 the word was firmly attached to cats. A steady stream of AI-made remixes kept new versions arriving through 2024 and 2025.

How to use 哈基米

• 我家哈基米又把杯子推下桌了。
  Wǒ jiā hā jī mǐ yòu bǎ bēizi tuī xià zhuō le.
  My little hajimi knocked a cup off the table again.
• 这首哈基米神曲我已经循环一下午了。
  Zhè shǒu hā jī mǐ shénqǔ wǒ yǐjīng xúnhuán yí xiàwǔ le.
  I've had this hajimi earworm on repeat all afternoon.