栓Q
Thank you (not)
栓Q。Thanks a lot.
栓Q is the English “thank you”, spelled the way it sounded in a viral video. Online it is sarcastic: “thanks a lot”, said when something has left you fed up or speechless.
- Took off
- 2022
- Started in
- A Douyin video
- Today
- Fading
What it means
You use it after something annoying: more overtime, a cancelled train, a friend who ate your cake. It is close to the English “great, thanks”. 我真的会谢, “I really will thank you”, is a longer version of the same eye-roll.
How people use it
It is fading, but people still understand it. It began as a joke about one man’s accent, so keep it as a reaction to a situation, not a comment on how someone speaks.
你的火车几点到？
When does your train get in?晚点两个小时了
It’s two hours late.我真的栓Q
Thanks a lot.别急，我去车站接你
Hang in there. I’ll pick you up at the station.
More examples
又要加班，我真的栓Q。
More overtime. Thanks a lot.
你把我的蛋糕吃了？栓Q。
You ate my cake? Thanks so much.
Where it came from
It comes from short videos made in Guangxi, in which a man ended his clips about local tourism with “thank you” in a strong accent. Sources disagree on which video came first. The weekly 语言文字周报 points to a February 2022 clip about bamboo rafting on the Yulong River.
语言文字周报 put 栓Q first on its list of the ten most popular internet phrases of 2022.
The original. A short travel clip: a man on a bamboo raft among the hills of Guangxi ends with “thank you” in a strong accent. Chengdu Business Daily reported the 2022 list. Chengdu Business Daily (in Chinese)
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Sources
- Chengdu Business Daily: the phrases of 2022 (in Chinese) (static.cdsb.com)
- Sixth Tone: the buzzwords of 2022 (sixthtone.com)
Checked November 2026. The picture at the top is our own drawing of 灯灯. It is not the original meme image.
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