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Fang4xin1.

• Simplified/Traditional characters: 放心。
• Back-translation of Mandarin: Don’t worry.
• Script Mandarin translation (phonetic for English speakers): FAHNG-sheen.
• Translated from script English: Don't worry.
• Context: “Trash” [Cut], Zoe, to Inara about keeping Mal safe from Saffron

fang4xin1

Don’t worry, to set one’s mind at rest

1. fang4: to release, to set free
2. xin1: the mind

fang4zong4 feng1kuang2 de5 jie2

• Simplified characters: 放纵疯狂的结 / Traditional characters: 放縱瘋狂的結
• Back-translation of Mandarin: knot of self-indulgent insanity
• Script Mandarin translation (phonetic for English speakers): FANG-tzang FONG-kwong duh jie
• Translated from script English: knot of self indulgent lunacy
• Context: “War Stories,” Mal, about Wash and Zoe arguing and Wash going on the job

fang4zong4 feng1kuang2 de5 jie2

a knot of self-indulgent insanity

1. fang4zong4: self-indulgent
   1. fang4: to let oneself go
   2. zong4 [for this meaning, used only in compound words]: to indulge
2. feng1kuang2: insanity, madness
   1. feng1: to be crazy, to be insane
   2. kuang2: to be crazy, to be insane
3. de5: [noun-modifier marker] [here: possessive (genitive), ’s, of]
4. jie2: a knot

fei4fei4 de5 pi4yan3

• Simplified/Traditional characters: 狒狒的屁眼
• Back-translation of Mandarin: baboon’s anus
• Script Mandarin translation (phonetic for English speakers): FAY-FAY duh PEE-yen
• Translated from script English: a babboon's [sic] ass-crack [see note below]
• Context: “Objects in Space,” Jayne, about Kaylee’s recounting of River’s shooting

fei4fei4 de5

baboon’s

1. fei4fei4: a baboon
   1. fei4 [used only in the compound word fei4fei4]
2. de5: [noun-modifier marker] [here: possessive (genitive), ’s, of]

pi4yan3

[abbreviation] →
pi4gu5yan3 屁股眼 : the anus

1. pi4gu5: a butt (of the body), a backside (of the body)
   1. pi4 [for this meaning, used only in compound words]: [colloquial] a butt (of the body), a backside (of the body)
   2. gu3 [for this meaning, used only in compound words]: a thigh
2. yan3: a small hole

Fei4hua4.

• Simplified characters: 废话。 / Traditional characters: 廢話。
• Back-translation of Mandarin: Nonsense.
• Script Mandarin translation (Hanyu Pinyin romanization): Fei hua. [phonetic for English speakers: Fay-hua.]
• Translated from script English: Nonsense.
• Context: “Safe,” Mal, refuting claim that cattle are in poor condition

fei4hua4

nonsense, Nonsense!

1. fei4 [for this meaning, used only in compound words]: useless, abandoned
2. hua4: words, talk [noun]

fei4tie3

• Simplified characters: 废铁 / Comics Mandarin translation (traditional characters): 廢鐵
• Back-translation of Mandarin: scrap iron
• Phonetic for English speakers: fay tyeh
• Context: Serenity: Better Days #1, Jayne (off-screen), p. 9, referring to Security Drone

fei4tie3

scrap iron

1. fei4 [for this meaning, used only in compound words]: useless, abandoned
2. tie3: iron (metal)

fei4wu4

• Simplified characters: 废物 / Traditional characters: 廢物
• Back-translation of Mandarin: trash
• Script Mandarin translation (phonetic for English speakers): fei-oo
• Translated from script English: junk
• Context: “Out of Gas,” Zoe, referring to Serenity
• 2. Script Mandarin translation (phonetic for English speakers): Fei-oo?
• Translated from script English: Junk?
• Context: “Out of Gas,” Mal, surprised by Zoe’s slur against Serenity

fei4wu4

a useless thing, trash

1. fei4 [for this meaning, used only in compound words]: useless, abandoned
2. wu4 [used only in compound words]: a matter, a thing

Feng1le5.

• Simplified characters: 疯了。 / Traditional characters: 瘋了。
• Back-translation of Mandarin: Crazy.
• Script Mandarin translation (phonetic for English speakers): Fong luh.
• Translated from script English: Loopy in the head.
• Context: “Bushwhacked” [Cut], Jayne, about waiting around for Reaver victims’ funeral

feng1le5

(someone is) crazy

1. feng1: to be crazy, to be insane
2. le5: [marker for exclamations]