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山寨

shānzhài

“Fortified hill village” in Chinese is 山寨 (shānzhài).

Meaning

  • fortified hill village
  • mountain stronghold (esp. of bandits)
  • (fig.) knockoff (goods)
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  • counterfeit
  • imitation

Example

我似乎不太喜欢小米,我觉得小米是屌丝用的手机,就是个山寨机。

I don't really like Xiaomi phones, and I think that they're for losers. They're like knock-offs.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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