skr

Originally a sound effect mimicking a car tire screeching — rapper Kris Wu (Wu Yifan) used it constantly on the Chinese hip-hop show 'The Rap of China' to mean something is dope, fire, or impressive. The internet promptly roasted him for it, turning 'skr' into both a genuine compliment and a sarcastic joke. It's the rare slang that lived a double life: cool kids used it earnestly, everyone else used it to mock those cool kids.

2017 was peak hip-hop fever in China, driven by iQiyi's 'The Rap of China' (中国有嘻哈). The show mainstreamed street culture for a generation raised on idol pop. Kris Wu's over-reliance on 'skr' made him a meme, but also symbolized how Western subculture vocabulary gets half-absorbed into Chinese youth slang — authenticity and parody coexisting cheerfully.

源自说唱文化，rapper吴亦凡常用，表示很厉害、很酷或赞叹之意，后被广泛戏谑使用。