People’s Daily Online, Beijing, December 2 (Reporter Wei Yanxing) On December 2, the editorial department of Chewing Words released the top ten buzzwords of 2024. Digital intelligence, intelligence for goodness, future industry, city not city, hard control, water and spirit, class taste, sense of relaxation, silver hair strength, and children’s brother/sister were selected.
Huang Anjing, editor-in-chief of Chewing on Words, said in an interview that language is a mirror of society, and the characteristics of the times reflected by popular words this year are very obvious. "The era of intelligence has arrived. With the breakthrough of AI technology, we have entered a new era of intelligence, and artificial intelligence is promoting the social and industrial revolution. Reflected in the language, it is the emergence and widespread popularity of artificial intelligence words. "
In Huang Anjing’s view, the younger generation represented by the post-00 generation is becoming the focus of social attention. "The post-00 generation is the backbone of the Paris Olympic Games, and they are relaxed and hearty in the face of pressure and even grievances, and their sunshine and self-confidence have also won social appreciation. This is the direct reason why the "sense of relaxation" has spread all over the network. "
In addition, the elderly group has become a more important driving force for social development. "Nowadays, more and more elderly friends are involved in voluntary service, cultural education and other activities and continue to play an active role in society. Many’ silver’ words have thus become widely popular. " Huang Anjing said.
Intellectualization of numbers
The integration of digitalization and intelligence means introducing intelligent advanced technologies, such as autonomous learning, decision-making optimization, predictive analysis, etc., on the basis of digitalization, so as to improve production efficiency, optimize resource allocation, and enhance management level and innovation ability. Intellectualization is a distinctive feature of new industrialization and an important way to form new quality productivity.
Intelligent goodness
It means that the development of artificial intelligence must be conducive to better enhancing human well-being, which can not only promote industrial change and economic development, but also make society better and achieve sustainable development. China attaches great importance to the development, security and governance of artificial intelligence. The development concept of "people-oriented" and "intelligence for goodness" has become the cornerstone of building a good ecology of global artificial intelligence.
Future industry
It refers to strategic, leading and subversive forward-looking emerging industries driven by cutting-edge technologies, including new tracks such as future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space and future health. The breakthrough and development of industries in the future will bring new impetus and changes to the economic development of China and even the whole world.
City is not city
American blogger Bao Baoxiong recorded his travel experience in China with a short video. In the video, he talked to his sister: "Is Shanghai city not city?" "Good city!" The original meaning of "city" is a city, and it can also refer to urbanization. Bao Baoxiong said that the "city" in his conversation refers to fashion, westernization and modernization, and also refers to the feeling of excitement and happiness. Since China implemented the 144-hour visa-free transit policy, more and more foreign friends have come to China for sightseeing. China travel videos have become the "traffic passwords" of many overseas bloggers. Beautiful food, high-speed rail travel and hospitable people in China have made foreign friends praise "city" directly.
Hard control
"Control" means control, and "hard control" means forced control. The word "hard control" originated from games, which refers to a kind of skill that gamers can’t control their characters for a certain period of time. Nowadays, the use of the word "hard control" has gradually expanded to a wider social context, which is used to describe something or phenomenon that has a strong attraction to someone and makes people unable to divert their attention and attention.
Water and spirit ××××
"Water spirit" is often used to describe people who are beautiful and energetic, and it is also used to describe animals and plants that are moist and lively. "Beautiful" comes from the words of a Korean female singer who showed a photo collage: "I am so beautiful in the middle, surrounded by terrible sisters." Netizens have followed the example of making sentences, matching "water and spirit" with various words to describe a certain behavior as vivid, lively or commendable and attracting attention. Its use context is gradually expanding, which can be used to emphasize and highlight.
Banwei
The popularity of "Banwei" stems from the net text: "As long as you have been to work, you will be contaminated with Banwei and you will never go away. The tired temperament of going to work is really impossible to imitate. " Netizens talk about "class flavor", sharing their own performance of "class flavor" and their efforts to bid farewell to "class flavor" and balance work and life, such as traveling, taking vacations, socializing and entertaining.
Relaxation
"Relaxation" can mean not being nervous or not being strict. Today’s "sense of relaxation" generally refers to the psychological state of calmly coping with pressure, being kind to yourself, not panicking and not being anxious. The popularity of "sense of relaxation" stems from a blogger’s bystander experience: when a family went out to travel, all their luggage was returned, but they didn’t make noise, didn’t break down and blame each other, but rescheduled their trips and the atmosphere was relaxed throughout. After the blogger uploaded the matter, the "sense of relaxation" caused a heated discussion. During the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, "sense of relaxation" spread all over the network. China’s "post-00" teenagers’ "sense of relaxation" in going to the Olympic Games attracted people’s attention. They are comfortable in the face of pressure, showing their youthful self-confidence with "the sense of relaxation of the new generation" and sunshine mentality, and have achieved convincing competition results.
Silver hair strength
"Silver hair" refers to the elderly, and "silver hair power" refers to the power that the elderly group can’t be ignored in all fields of society. Nowadays, more and more elderly friends participate in voluntary service, cultural education and other activities, injecting a steady stream of "silver hair power" into social development. The words of the "silver hair" family have also developed and expanded, such as "silver hair wave", "silver hair market" and "silver hair economy".
Child brother/child sister
"Children" refers to children and young children, and generally refers to minors. If "elder brother" and "elder sister" are used for non-kinship, they are generally honorifics, referring to people who are similar or slightly older than themselves. "Child elder brother/child elder sister" refers to a child who has extraordinary talents in some way. Although they are young, they have extraordinary talents. Adults are not as good as sighing, so they add a respectful "brother/sister" to them.