Douyin
name/ˈdəʊ.jɪn/UK/ˈdoʊ.jɪn/US
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 抖音 (dǒuyīn, literally “shaking sound”).
- borrowed from 抖音
Definitions
The version of TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform, that is exclusively used in…
The version of TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform, that is exclusively used in mainland China.
- Douyin’s influence has even extended offline, as many users identify themselves as Douyiner (“抖音人”) and socialize with each other using jargons in real life.
- In May 2018, ‘Black Face V’, a popular ‘Douyiner’ with 26.37 million followers, posted a 13-second video entitled ‘I want to tell you’ on Douyin, in which the watermarks of ‘Douyin’ and ‘ID: 145651081’ were embedded.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Douyin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA