What does "12 13" mean?

"12 13" means to love you all your life.

1-stands for uniqueness, you and the starting point; 2- stands for love and two people. 3- Represents missing, living and living;

The number "520" was originally a homophonic confession hint for lovers by netizens, such as "520 13 14= I love you all my life". Later, more people used it, and it gradually became a festival for everyone, and it was also the first fixed festival in the virtual network world. Similar spontaneous online festivals include Singles' Day, Gossip Festival on 8 18, Lori Festival on10/1and so on.

"Homophonic" means "words have the same or similar phonology", and some people think that homophonic "is a rhetorical way to arouse people's association by using the homophonic or near-homophonic relationship of words". Chen Wangdao's The Origin of Rhetoric summarizes the types of pun effect achieved by homophony from the perspective of "sound, form and meaning".

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There are three kinds of new words produced by replacing the original words with homophones or near homophones:

The first category is homophonic words based on Chinese characters, including homophonic words in Mandarin, such as "refill (comparison), pear (pressure) and so on. Dialect words are homophonic words such as "blue thin (uncomfortable), mushroom (want to cry), gray machine (airplane)", "sauce purple (like this), you made it (do you know)" and so on.

The second is English-based homophonic words, such as "3Q (thank you), CU (goodbye), fans, shopping" and so on.

Third, new words composed of digital homophones, such as "520 (I love you), 13 14 (for life)" and so on.

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