Chinese Slang Explained

雨女无瓜

yǔ nǚ wú guā

Literally
“Rain-woman no-melon”, a sound-alike of 与你无关 (“none of your business”).
Meaning
A mangled-pronunciation joke meaning “none of your business”, said in a fairy-tale prince's accent.
Popular since
2019
雨女无瓜 (yǔ nǚ wú guā)
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What does 雨女无瓜 mean?

雨女无瓜 is not a real phrase; it is 与你无关 mispronounced by the 游乐王子 character in the children's drama 《巴啦啦小魔仙》. Netizens fell for the soap-opera diction, the so-called magic-castle accent, and started typing whole conversations in it: 要泥寡 for 要你管, 亚子 for 样子. The joke is the accent itself, not the message.

Where does 雨女无瓜 come from?

The drama aired in 2008, but the pronunciation jokes only exploded in May 2019, when clips of the prince's scenes were edited into compilations on B站 and spread to Weibo. For a few months that spring, 雨女无瓜 was the standard way to tell someone to mind their own business.

How to use 雨女无瓜

  • 室友追着问我昨晚几点回,我回他一句:雨女无瓜。
    Shìyǒu zhuīzhe wèn wǒ zuówǎn jǐ diǎn huí, wǒ huí tā yí jù: yǔ nǚ wú guā.
    My roommate kept asking what time I got home last night, so I answered: rain-woman no-melon.
  • 剪辑博主把游乐王子的空耳剪成合集,播放量三天破百万。
    Jiǎnjí bózhǔ bǎ yóulè wángzǐ de kōng'ěr jiǎn chéng héjí, bōfàngliàng sān tiān pò bǎi wàn.
    A video editor made a compilation of the prince's mispronunciations, and it passed a million views in three days.

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