chin chin你好；再见

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

Used by the British to mean hello or good—bye．Relatively few Americans have been greeted by anyone using this expression，but it is an oriental greeting often encountered in literature since the early nineteenth century．There is no connection here with the lower jaw，the word for which derives from the Old English cin．Chin chin is just a corruption of the Chinese salutation ts’ing ts’ing．

英国人用此来表示“你好”或“再见”。以此用语来相互致意的美国人相对较少。自19世纪初以来，这是文学作品中经常见到的东方致意语。该词语与“下巴”(chin)毫无关系，chin源于古英语cin。Chin chin只是汉语致意语“请请”的讹传。