Píča

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Drawing of the symbol píča
Drawing of the symbol píča

Píča (IPA: [piːʧa]), sometimes short piča or pyča ([pɪʧa]), is a Czech and Slovak profanity that refers to the vagina similar to the English word cunt. It is often represented as a symbol of a rhombus standing on one of its sharper tips; both of these tips are connected by a vertical line representing a vulva. Sometimes the symbol is appended by beam-like lines surrounding the rhombus, symbolising pubic hair.

The meaning is clear for most Czechs and Slovaks. In some other Slavic languages it has other spellings, but similar pronunciation. Drawing this symbol is considered a taboo, or at least unaccepted by mainstream society.[citation needed]

[edit] Symbol in culture

Use of the symbol in Bulgaria, where it doesn't carry the same connotations as in Czechoslovakia
Use of the symbol in Bulgaria, where it doesn't carry the same connotations as in Czechoslovakia

This symbol has occurred in a few Czech movies, including Bylo nás pět. In the 1969 drama The Blunder (Ptákovina), Milan Kundera describes the cruel fate of a student who drew the symbol on a blackboard.[1] Jaromír Nohavica confessed, in the 1983-song Halelujá, to "drawing short lines and rhombuses on a plaster" (in Czech "tužkou kreslil na omítku čárečky a kosočtverce").[2] A customised version of the symbol with three vertical lines inside the rhombus is a logo for the musical group Tři sestry (Czech Three sisters).

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Jan Čulík, Milan Kundera, 2000, electronic version on University of Glasgow website
  2. ^ in Czech "tužkou kreslil na omítku čárečky a kosočtverce", Halelujá on LyricWiki

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