推友

Chinese

		push; refuse (responsibility); shove	friend
simp. and trad. (推友)		推	友
Literally: “Twitter friend”.

Etymology

From 推 (tuī), short for 推特 (Tuītè, “Twitter”), and 友 (yǒu, “friend”), meaning “fellow friends on Twitter”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tuīyǒu

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄟㄧㄡˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tuīyǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄟㄧㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tueiyǒu
  - Wade–Giles: tʻui¹-yu³
  - Yale: twēi-yǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tueiyeou
  - Palladius: туйю (tujju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

推友

(Internet slang) A Twitter user; a friend on Twitter
- 共有350萬推友參加了馬斯克發起的問卷調查。 [MSC, trad.]
  共有350万推友参加了马斯克发起的问卷调查。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: Deutsche Welle, 2021年11月8日, 馬斯克是否出售特斯拉10%股票？58%推友說“應該”
  Gòngyǒu sānbǎiwǔshíwàn Tuīyǒu cānjiā le mǎsīkè fāqǐ de wènjuǎndiàochá. [Pinyin]
  A total of 3.5 million Twitter users participated in the poll initiated by Musk.