Thai chat slang: 20 words translators get wrong
Thai LINE chats are full of slang that word-by-word translators turn into nonsense. Here's what it means.
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🤖 Word-by-word translators“The customer poured the appointment.”
✅ Smartlation“The customer cancelled on us.”
| Slang | Literally | Really means |
|---|---|---|
| 555 | five five five | hahaha |
| เท (te) | to pour | to bail on someone, cancel at the last minute |
| ปัง (pang) | bang | a hit, amazing, went viral |
| ฟิน (fin) | — | blissful, so satisfying |
| จึ้ง (jueng) | — | stunning, jaw-dropping |
| ชิล (chill) | chill | relaxed, easy |
| มโน (mano) | mind (Pali) | imagining things, making it up in your head |
| เผือก (phueak) | taro | nosy, poking into other people's business |
| ลำไย (lamyai) | longan fruit | annoying (sounds like รำคาญ, “annoyed”) |
| โดนแกง (don kaeng) | got curried | got pranked, set up |
| ปั่น (pan) | to spin | to troll, wind someone up |
| เกรียน (krian) | crew cut | a troll, a cheeky brat |
| นอยด์ (noi) | from “paranoid” | anxious, moody, overthinking |
| งอน (ngon) | — | sulking, wants to be made up to |
| เค้า (khao) | he / she | between couples: “I” |
| ตัวเอง (tua eng) | self | between couples: “you” |
| เดี๋ยว (dieow) | a moment | in a minute… or in three hours |
| ป้ะ (pa) | — | “shall we?” / “right?” at the end of a message |
| อิหยังวะ (i-yang wa) | Isan: “what?” | what on earth?! |
| กินข้าวยัง (gin khao yang) | eaten rice yet? | I care about you / hello |
Smartlation reads slang in context, so you get the meaning — not the dictionary entry. You can also teach it your own words with /word.