一整个爱住yì zhěng gè ài zhù

Totally in love with it

yì zhěng gè ài zhù!一整个爱住！Totally in love!

一整个爱住 means “totally in love with it”. It is the best-known fill of a 2021 pattern, 一整个×住, in which × is a feeling and the line means “completely ×”.

Took off: 2021
Started in: Douyin videos
Today: Fading

What it means

The pattern joins two bits of slang. 一整个, “a whole”, makes the feeling stronger, a little like 整个人, “my whole self”. 住 after a feeling says that the feeling has you stuck. Together they mean “completely ×” or “very ×”, according to The Paper.

Common fills are 一整个爱住, “totally in love”, 一整个无语住, “totally speechless”, and 一整个愣住, “totally stunned”.

How people use it

It is less fresh than in 2021, but it still turns up in chats, captions and comments, mostly about things you love and small things that annoy you.

琦琦

看，我家小狗新剪的发型
kàn, wǒ jiā xiǎo gǒu xīn jiǎn de fà xíng
Look, my puppy’s new haircut.
好圆！一整个爱住
hǎo yuán! yì zhěng gè ài zhù
So round! Totally in love.
剪一次两百块
jiǎn yí cì liǎng bǎi kuài
One haircut costs 200 yuan.
这个价格，我一整个愣住
zhè gè jià gé, wǒ yì zhěng gè lèng zhù
That price? I’m totally stunned.

More examples

这只小猫太可爱了，一整个爱住。
zhè zhī xiǎo māo tài kě ài le, yì zhěng gè ài zhù.
This kitten is so cute. Totally in love.
又要开会，我一整个无语住。
yòu yào kāi huì, wǒ yì zhěng gè wú yǔ zhù.
Another meeting. I’m totally speechless.
看到价格，我一整个愣住了。
kàn dào jià gé, wǒ yì zhěng gè lèng zhù le.
When I saw the price, I just froze.

Where it came from

It grew out of a 2021 fashion on Douyin for long, wordy sentences full of filler, with phrases like 咱就是说, “I mean”, and 一整个……大动作, “a whole … move”. 36Kr names a Douyin creator who used 一整个 early, to stress that a sentence mattered.

Sources differ on where 一整个 began. 36Kr points to Douyin creators. An article from a Peking University social media research center calls it a common way of speaking in northeast China.

In December 2021, Language Weekly, a Shanghai paper, put 一整个×住 on its list of the ten internet phrases of the year.

The original. There is no single image. The pattern spread through Douyin videos and comments in which creators piled up filler words. 36Kr described the trend in November 2021. 36Kr (in Chinese)