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Keep Elegant and Retreat: Top Memes and Slang of 2022

In a year that saw Covid frustrations and viral trends, here are the words and phrases netizens invented to talk about it all

2022 seems to have gone by in a flash, and through it all, TWOC has brought you the memes and slang terms that captured what Chinese netizens talked about, thought about, and felt. In this eventful year that saw netizens discussing the Winter Olympics like a video game, revisiting music and celebrities from their childhood, and creating ”literature” during months-long pandemic lockdowns, here are TWOC’s picks for the most significant and influential internet memes and slang terms from 2022:

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author Zhang Wenjie (张文捷)

Zhang Wenjie is a contributing writer at The World of Chinese. She loves to share the lifestyles, voices, and concerns of China’s Gen Z. She is also fond of collecting and displaying the flourishing slang expressions in the Chinese language.

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