THE 3 WHALES OF MODERN RUSSIAN FILTHY LANGUAGE
There are 3 main root-words in Russian slang, 3 engines, what provide its tremendous energy in equal parts. Usually even when phrases has same translation, there are still some subtle difference between them.
However its also some synonyms, absolutely changeable, like words in picture on the right: " Ohuitelno = pizdato = zaebis!" - "Excellent=excellent=excellent"! Religious people feeling in it the Eternal Trinity, while others just don't fucking care.
However its also some synonyms, absolutely changeable, like words in picture on the right: " Ohuitelno = pizdato = zaebis!" - "Excellent=excellent=excellent"! Religious people feeling in it the Eternal Trinity, while others just don't fucking care.
"The ONE" - HUY (or "Khuy") - penis, dick, cock, knob...
Gustav Vigeland, Vigeland Sculpture Park
Huy is not just a word - now its one of the main roots of whole world of Russian slang (like ying & yang, mostly all going around Huy & Pizda) . Experienced people always can find some new expressions with huy, because new words adding to the language, but old ones still in use, vivid and popular!
The word "Her" has same meaning, but little bit softer - sometimes in society with too many hung-ups its better to avoid "huy" and use "her" instead. Ex. "Oheret!" - "Fucking A!", or "Ohuet!", or "Her naydesh" - "You'll never find it", "herovo" - same bad as huevo.
The main meaning of Huy is "dick" or "penis". Its a noun, but commonly used with the verbs (poslat na huy - send somebody to the dick), and as a root of other words: verb (ohuet, ohuevat - showing expression); adjective (ohuitelny - cool, huevy - bad) or as participle (ohuenno - cool, huevato - bad, but with low level, sms. like not so good).
Ex. "Zaebis ili huevo, lish-bi ti bila zdorova!" (cool or bad, most important that you (female) all right!".
As everybody, Russians has many other words to use instead, but normally they do it only sometimes - Huy covers all needs.
Below are the most common phrases with examples:
Poshel na huy - fuck you. Can be used in most of life situations. Sometimes not personal,
Example -
Liza: Sergey, its Monday, so prepare all stuff to work, then take my mam to the hospital, then we going to bank to pay the bills.
Sergey: Blya-a-a... Da poshlo ono vse na huy, I'll stay at home.
Huy ego znaet - don't know (fuck know), can be use with reverie,
Huy s nim - fuck it ("dick with him").
Huy v ochko - also using with pronoun ((huy tebe, vam, emu, im...v ochko) effective substitute of "no" in situations, when somebody will not get something, what he (she) wish to get "You'll not get it",
Ni huya sebe! - expression of wondering.
Examples-
Journalist: Mr. President, now after your elections, when you planning to start promised economical reforms?
President: Huy ego znaet... Soon, I guess.
Huy tam - one more variation of simple "no"; we need to post example with teenagers to explain it:
Petya: Where you think he was hiding?!
Fedya: Huy ego znaet... in the garage, did he?
Petya: Da vothuy tam! He was In the hen house, fucking the hens!
Fedya: nu ni huya sebe! Nu i huy s nim, let's say he wins.
Nakhuy (-a)? (-a) - specializing question, usually imply that you don't interested in some offer; Nakhuy nado? - "Why i need it?";
Example -
Road police officer: next time please wear the helmet to avoid the fine.
Motorbike driver: Nakhuya?! I'll rather pay small fee again.
Pokhuy (-ju, mne pokhuy) - showing that you don't worry about any potential consequences, similar: Huy s nim (s nimi - in multiplicity) - fuck it. Look also article about Vsem Pokhuy below.
Example -
Anna: Don't drink vodka in office - boss can see and fire you!
Boris: Da mne pokhuy!
Dokhuya - a lot, many.
Ohuitelno! (participle, ohuitelny - adjective) - can be used separately as "Excellent" or as superlative degree - Ohuitelno beautiful!
Example -
Ivan: I heard that you split with Natasha, how are you feeling now?
Alexey: Ohuitelno, having new bitch every Tuesday!
Denis: Do you know why in USA they calls it "Black Wednesday"?
Pasha: I don't care - ohuitelny denek! (denek - day).
Huevo (participle) - bad, also can be strengthen by "very" - ochen, when things going very bad. With prefix ne- means opposite meaning.
Huevato has same meaning with lower level of huevo.
Example -
Egor: How was your vacation in Siberia this February?
Anton: Huevo. Ochen huevo.
Ohuet, ohuevat (verb) - to feel strong feelings - can be used in positive (amazement) and negative (indignation) meanings. Ex.: Ohuet from happiness. Ohuevat - same with continues effect - as "i still feeling it".
Example -
Max: You definitely ohuel-bi, if could see what was happens there!
Kostya: I (ya) uje ohuevaju, while listening you (uje - already)!
Huynya (noun) - something, stuff, bullshit. Can be positive and negative, depends of using.
Example -
Andrey: what's huynya just happens! Police stopped me in a car and almost found a weed i had!
Slava: I told you many time, don't take this huynya on car with you.
Huykin, huylo, huila, hueputalo, hueplet - curses, directed to somebody. Huykin - usually "somebody", hueplet - liar, huylo, hueputalo - humiliating swearwords (very sometimes you can also use just huy to call somebody, ex. "Eto chto za huy?!" (Who's fucking this?!"). There are many more complicated combinations such as Ohuevshy selezen - "Brazen (shameless) drake" or Huy morjovy - "Walrus penis".
Example:
Sasha: who's that huykin, what calls you fucking hundreds times last night?
Lena: it was Stepa from TV - not even the huykin, but the real fucking huylo!
Vsem Pokhuy - means "nobody care", but has much wider and deeper meaning. Literally - "No matter what you wanna share, its right at Huy level to everyone". We guess that many people has absolutely misunderstanding of this magic expression, and in reality its refer us to the Divine Shiva Lingam, which is don't have edges both up and down.
So let's appreciate our position very close to the God's Huy!
The word "Her" has same meaning, but little bit softer - sometimes in society with too many hung-ups its better to avoid "huy" and use "her" instead. Ex. "Oheret!" - "Fucking A!", or "Ohuet!", or "Her naydesh" - "You'll never find it", "herovo" - same bad as huevo.
The main meaning of Huy is "dick" or "penis". Its a noun, but commonly used with the verbs (poslat na huy - send somebody to the dick), and as a root of other words: verb (ohuet, ohuevat - showing expression); adjective (ohuitelny - cool, huevy - bad) or as participle (ohuenno - cool, huevato - bad, but with low level, sms. like not so good).
Ex. "Zaebis ili huevo, lish-bi ti bila zdorova!" (cool or bad, most important that you (female) all right!".
As everybody, Russians has many other words to use instead, but normally they do it only sometimes - Huy covers all needs.
Below are the most common phrases with examples:
Poshel na huy - fuck you. Can be used in most of life situations. Sometimes not personal,
Example -
Liza: Sergey, its Monday, so prepare all stuff to work, then take my mam to the hospital, then we going to bank to pay the bills.
Sergey: Blya-a-a... Da poshlo ono vse na huy, I'll stay at home.
Huy ego znaet - don't know (fuck know), can be use with reverie,
Huy s nim - fuck it ("dick with him").
Huy v ochko - also using with pronoun ((huy tebe, vam, emu, im...v ochko) effective substitute of "no" in situations, when somebody will not get something, what he (she) wish to get "You'll not get it",
Ni huya sebe! - expression of wondering.
Examples-
Journalist: Mr. President, now after your elections, when you planning to start promised economical reforms?
President: Huy ego znaet... Soon, I guess.
Huy tam - one more variation of simple "no"; we need to post example with teenagers to explain it:
Petya: Where you think he was hiding?!
Fedya: Huy ego znaet... in the garage, did he?
Petya: Da vothuy tam! He was In the hen house, fucking the hens!
Fedya: nu ni huya sebe! Nu i huy s nim, let's say he wins.
Nakhuy (-a)? (-a) - specializing question, usually imply that you don't interested in some offer; Nakhuy nado? - "Why i need it?";
Example -
Road police officer: next time please wear the helmet to avoid the fine.
Motorbike driver: Nakhuya?! I'll rather pay small fee again.
Pokhuy (-ju, mne pokhuy) - showing that you don't worry about any potential consequences, similar: Huy s nim (s nimi - in multiplicity) - fuck it. Look also article about Vsem Pokhuy below.
Example -
Anna: Don't drink vodka in office - boss can see and fire you!
Boris: Da mne pokhuy!
Dokhuya - a lot, many.
Ohuitelno! (participle, ohuitelny - adjective) - can be used separately as "Excellent" or as superlative degree - Ohuitelno beautiful!
Example -
Ivan: I heard that you split with Natasha, how are you feeling now?
Alexey: Ohuitelno, having new bitch every Tuesday!
Denis: Do you know why in USA they calls it "Black Wednesday"?
Pasha: I don't care - ohuitelny denek! (denek - day).
Huevo (participle) - bad, also can be strengthen by "very" - ochen, when things going very bad. With prefix ne- means opposite meaning.
Huevato has same meaning with lower level of huevo.
Example -
Egor: How was your vacation in Siberia this February?
Anton: Huevo. Ochen huevo.
Ohuet, ohuevat (verb) - to feel strong feelings - can be used in positive (amazement) and negative (indignation) meanings. Ex.: Ohuet from happiness. Ohuevat - same with continues effect - as "i still feeling it".
Example -
Max: You definitely ohuel-bi, if could see what was happens there!
Kostya: I (ya) uje ohuevaju, while listening you (uje - already)!
Huynya (noun) - something, stuff, bullshit. Can be positive and negative, depends of using.
Example -
Andrey: what's huynya just happens! Police stopped me in a car and almost found a weed i had!
Slava: I told you many time, don't take this huynya on car with you.
Huykin, huylo, huila, hueputalo, hueplet - curses, directed to somebody. Huykin - usually "somebody", hueplet - liar, huylo, hueputalo - humiliating swearwords (very sometimes you can also use just huy to call somebody, ex. "Eto chto za huy?!" (Who's fucking this?!"). There are many more complicated combinations such as Ohuevshy selezen - "Brazen (shameless) drake" or Huy morjovy - "Walrus penis".
Example:
Sasha: who's that huykin, what calls you fucking hundreds times last night?
Lena: it was Stepa from TV - not even the huykin, but the real fucking huylo!
Vsem Pokhuy - means "nobody care", but has much wider and deeper meaning. Literally - "No matter what you wanna share, its right at Huy level to everyone". We guess that many people has absolutely misunderstanding of this magic expression, and in reality its refer us to the Divine Shiva Lingam, which is don't have edges both up and down.
So let's appreciate our position very close to the God's Huy!
нахуй
FEMININE - PIZDA - cunt.
Sounds like another Japanese car brand, however it don't. Pizda means cunt and its 2-nd meaning - sly woman or just woman,(sometimes even man, but we suppose that its not correct - call man man's word - huy!); 3-d meaning - expression of unlucky situation. Usually it has a bad meaning. However its universal derivation, pizdec, can means almost everything.
As a root, can be used as noun (pizdec) participle or adjective (Pizdato - very good, amazing, pizdaty - adj.), verb (Pizdet - lie) and part of set expressions. Pizda rulu in word to word is "cunt to steering wheel" and used to show that "bad thing happens"; Pizdoy nakrytsya (covered by kunt) - when sms broke or stopped. Dat pizdi or pizdyuli- beat somebody up, Polushit pizdi - when its you was beaten, pizdanutsya - fall (from height, but also used when somebody going crazy), ni v pizdu, ni v Krasnuju Armiju (Krasnaya Armiya - Red Army) - something or often somebody not good at all. Pizdovat - walking somewhere.
Ostopizdet to - to weary somebody with some bullshit.
Example -
Egor: how is your business?
Vasily: pizdoy nakrylsya month ago.
Egor: Huya se! (shorten from ni khuya sebe). Pizdec polny (look below). How come?
Vasily:Its ostopizdelo to me, and all economy naebnulas ...
Poshel v pizdu - has absolutely same meaning, as poshel na khuy, what sounds strange even for us - for man poyti v pizdu looks much more promising! Can be shorten to "V pizdu" - same meaning.
Example -
Katya: teacher said that Vova is last in chess in whole school. Maybe you'll do something with it?
Dima: - make friends with Kasparov? V pizdu that chess, I'll rather teach him poker instead!
Pizdet, napizdet - to lie, zapizdetsya - to be catch on lie, dopizdetsya - to lie (in prolonged) until some sad consequences; raspizdet - to tell to everybody around about sms. (here can be not lie, just some info, what better to keep), pripizdet - to add some fiction into the story. Pizdej - lie (noun). Polny (full) should using to force the phrase.
Examples -
The gossips that I come to the general meeting from the bar completely drunken its a pizdej, and the shit about that I returns to the bar after its a polny pizdej. Those huevi scandalmongers just to to raspizdet around every stupid joke.
Ilia: What did you've napizdel on a border to get that visa to Israel with your terrorist face? They should stop you before the entrance to the airport!
Sasha: I pripizdel my lovely Jewish granddad!
Journalist: Mr. Prime-minister, what about your plans to increase all salaries to medical persons, military men and others on 20% in May?
Prime-minister: O God, I just zapizdelsya.
Pizdec - expression; most of linguists admitting the uniqueness of pizdec and agrees, that this separate word is a serious advantage of the whole Russian culture. Nobody know when it was created and begins to be in use, however professor Arkady Androwsky have interesting theory about UFO exchange (it was given much before Y. Gagarin to the old Slavs, but secret being kept for centuries by priests. Instead of that our UFO-bros took all living Dinosaurus, whichs they are use as a luxury ECO-transport. according to his book "AAM (always asking more)", Androwsky, who lives now in UAE, supposed that it was a hint to inform the progeny, what to expect.
Literary critic V. H. Belynsky believes that in famous poetry of Pushkin about Moscow "Москва, как много в этом звуке..." (Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound...) originally was word Pizdec instead of "Moscow" and the real author was I.S. Barkov.
Commonly believes, that Pizdec (in bad meaning) stealing up without being noticed, what really making the difference with just unlucky moment.
Japanese thinker and traveller Shinya Sato discovered that Pizdec have ZEN-nature and come from the heaven to enhance the harmony among the people. After the random hearing of Pizdec he moved to Russia and learned Russian language, but didn't find even one more word of same power. Shinya was a poet and believes, that he can't use Pizdec in literature before achieving of Satori. That was a time when the most famous Haiku poems Issued from his pen, such as:
Beauty is all around
look! Blonde girl have a blue eyes
And same colour have bottle of vodka;
While dancing with the bears
I heard the batterflies chat
I was intrigued.
As a root, can be used as noun (pizdec) participle or adjective (Pizdato - very good, amazing, pizdaty - adj.), verb (Pizdet - lie) and part of set expressions. Pizda rulu in word to word is "cunt to steering wheel" and used to show that "bad thing happens"; Pizdoy nakrytsya (covered by kunt) - when sms broke or stopped. Dat pizdi or pizdyuli- beat somebody up, Polushit pizdi - when its you was beaten, pizdanutsya - fall (from height, but also used when somebody going crazy), ni v pizdu, ni v Krasnuju Armiju (Krasnaya Armiya - Red Army) - something or often somebody not good at all. Pizdovat - walking somewhere.
Ostopizdet to - to weary somebody with some bullshit.
Example -
Egor: how is your business?
Vasily: pizdoy nakrylsya month ago.
Egor: Huya se! (shorten from ni khuya sebe). Pizdec polny (look below). How come?
Vasily:Its ostopizdelo to me, and all economy naebnulas ...
Poshel v pizdu - has absolutely same meaning, as poshel na khuy, what sounds strange even for us - for man poyti v pizdu looks much more promising! Can be shorten to "V pizdu" - same meaning.
Example -
Katya: teacher said that Vova is last in chess in whole school. Maybe you'll do something with it?
Dima: - make friends with Kasparov? V pizdu that chess, I'll rather teach him poker instead!
Pizdet, napizdet - to lie, zapizdetsya - to be catch on lie, dopizdetsya - to lie (in prolonged) until some sad consequences; raspizdet - to tell to everybody around about sms. (here can be not lie, just some info, what better to keep), pripizdet - to add some fiction into the story. Pizdej - lie (noun). Polny (full) should using to force the phrase.
Examples -
The gossips that I come to the general meeting from the bar completely drunken its a pizdej, and the shit about that I returns to the bar after its a polny pizdej. Those huevi scandalmongers just to to raspizdet around every stupid joke.
Ilia: What did you've napizdel on a border to get that visa to Israel with your terrorist face? They should stop you before the entrance to the airport!
Sasha: I pripizdel my lovely Jewish granddad!
Journalist: Mr. Prime-minister, what about your plans to increase all salaries to medical persons, military men and others on 20% in May?
Prime-minister: O God, I just zapizdelsya.
Pizdec - expression; most of linguists admitting the uniqueness of pizdec and agrees, that this separate word is a serious advantage of the whole Russian culture. Nobody know when it was created and begins to be in use, however professor Arkady Androwsky have interesting theory about UFO exchange (it was given much before Y. Gagarin to the old Slavs, but secret being kept for centuries by priests. Instead of that our UFO-bros took all living Dinosaurus, whichs they are use as a luxury ECO-transport. according to his book "AAM (always asking more)", Androwsky, who lives now in UAE, supposed that it was a hint to inform the progeny, what to expect.
Literary critic V. H. Belynsky believes that in famous poetry of Pushkin about Moscow "Москва, как много в этом звуке..." (Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound...) originally was word Pizdec instead of "Moscow" and the real author was I.S. Barkov.
Commonly believes, that Pizdec (in bad meaning) stealing up without being noticed, what really making the difference with just unlucky moment.
Japanese thinker and traveller Shinya Sato discovered that Pizdec have ZEN-nature and come from the heaven to enhance the harmony among the people. After the random hearing of Pizdec he moved to Russia and learned Russian language, but didn't find even one more word of same power. Shinya was a poet and believes, that he can't use Pizdec in literature before achieving of Satori. That was a time when the most famous Haiku poems Issued from his pen, such as:
Beauty is all around
look! Blonde girl have a blue eyes
And same colour have bottle of vodka;
While dancing with the bears
I heard the batterflies chat
I was intrigued.
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"Pizdec! They rather give me piece of wood".
Poker Pro Stu Ungar also was close to that point - he was persuaded that Pizdec in language is equivalent to Joker in card (what he believes he always had invisible on the table) - he told once to the dealer in Vegas, who has Russian roots "Knowledge of the fact, that you can Pizdec in talks means that you can do it good. So, you can tell in with negative meaning only to enjoy the pure Pizdec effect by itself, without negative wishes - after all any of that (negative) wishes destructive for us same as for anybody else in the galaxy, lke a fucking strong nuclear bomb - you can strike it to your enemy miles away and get same after-effects ! Did you get that? Fuck!!".
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Polny pizdec (full pizdec) make this language tool even more effective (polny pizdec can't be openly positive, but can means some positive things ex. - "Its not a Pizdec anymore - its a Polny Pizdec!". Totalitarian regimes in Turkmenistan and Somali comes today to polny pizdec".
"Pizdec - as good as it sounds!" - was a famous slogan in -90-th during the mass immigration.
Examples:
Marina: Pizdec kakoy-to (some) - I working from dawn till dark, and the result is fucking "ZER-o"! What should I do?
Egor: Same as always, slat ih nahuy (fuck them all) and look for the new job. Or wait until polnyy pizdec will come.
Kostyan: what is apokalypse means?
Sanyok: its a polny pizdec.
THE ACTION - EB (to FUCK)
Eb - the root of verb ebat or ebatsya - to fuck or just to do something useless; with prefix za- means tired, be bored: verbs zaebat, zaebatsya, adj. zaebanny; adjective ebany - someone or something been fucked, ebatnya, ebatoria (usually process, also can be good to describe place what not so exiting), ebala, yoban - usually something boring and so on. Commonly used by most of country population, can be elegantly combined with 2 above.
Zaebis! - positive participle, ex. - How are you? - Zaebis! Can be adjective - zaebis istoriya (cool or funny episode);
Zaebasty (adjective) - something nice, ex. Zaebasty vecherok - nice evening! Don't confuse it with Zaebanny - very tired.
Zaebis! - positive participle, ex. - How are you? - Zaebis! Can be adjective - zaebis istoriya (cool or funny episode);
Zaebasty (adjective) - something nice, ex. Zaebasty vecherok - nice evening! Don't confuse it with Zaebanny - very tired.
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The full range of using and meaning of words with eb can be hardly explained on our small website. Unlike many others, here all in process of constant improvisation and new cool examples appears all the time.
ALTERNATIVES/OTHERS
Secret message from UFO was revealed!
Sometime you can be in interesting company of people, where your perfect knowledge of slang examples presented above will be not very welcomes. So, use some of that softer language tools below. No worry - same as experienced Russian & international topers know how to get drunk with a beer or kefir faster than with vodka & whiskey, skillful foul-mouth person can explain his any deep feeling without any rough curses much better than 16 y. gangsters cross the street. Virtuosic knowledge of all of those phrases guaranteed your communication success in 1/6 part of planet Earth.
Here are just few to start practice:
Jopa (ass) - many people successfully changing by Jopa most of phrases above. Its can be synonym to Pizdec, you can send to Jopa, same as Nakhuy, its also mean specific place ( - where? - v Jope!! Me and your dad were living in Jopa, and happily), situation and time.
Blyad (whore, slut) - some experts considering blyad 4-th root of slang. We don't agree - 3 as a number sounds better, and despite using it everywhere from kindergartens, blyad is just a one word, not a mother-word to many others.
Zalupa - a head of penis - using in delicate hints.
Manda - same as pizda, to avoid tautology.
Duren (idiot), mudak (bad, non-reliable person), tupica, kretin, ostolop, pridurok - stupid - good to know in everyday life.
As the adepts of total freedom we (as usual) recommend not to shy and open the reality in a simpliest way - in skillful slang. But there are the situations happens, when using of "usual" words defensible. Here are few more of them, what also can helps you to be part of R-Culture in 21-Century!
Chert ("devil") - can use as Huy. In English usually Hell in same phrases.
- Poshel k chertu - go to the devil (U-u-uoo-oo!), use as Poshel na huy;
- na koi chert? - "for what?", "why the hell" in a vivid way, as na koi huy;
- cherta s dva! - "no way", as huy navstrechu;
- chert poberi - u...u..uns-translatible light damn, also cafe in Brooklyn with varety of vodka, borsh, salo and Danish cakes.
Elki-palki (or ellyu-palyu - literally "fir-trees-sticks"), Blyaha-Muha - same as Pizdec in a sad meaning, when something going wrong.
Neshtyak- same as Zaebis, Pizdato & Ohuitelno - hovewer has a criminal roots, using of it acceptable (aborigens will not say Nishtyak to mama, but you can).
Here are just few to start practice:
Jopa (ass) - many people successfully changing by Jopa most of phrases above. Its can be synonym to Pizdec, you can send to Jopa, same as Nakhuy, its also mean specific place ( - where? - v Jope!! Me and your dad were living in Jopa, and happily), situation and time.
Blyad (whore, slut) - some experts considering blyad 4-th root of slang. We don't agree - 3 as a number sounds better, and despite using it everywhere from kindergartens, blyad is just a one word, not a mother-word to many others.
Zalupa - a head of penis - using in delicate hints.
Manda - same as pizda, to avoid tautology.
Duren (idiot), mudak (bad, non-reliable person), tupica, kretin, ostolop, pridurok - stupid - good to know in everyday life.
As the adepts of total freedom we (as usual) recommend not to shy and open the reality in a simpliest way - in skillful slang. But there are the situations happens, when using of "usual" words defensible. Here are few more of them, what also can helps you to be part of R-Culture in 21-Century!
Chert ("devil") - can use as Huy. In English usually Hell in same phrases.
- Poshel k chertu - go to the devil (U-u-uoo-oo!), use as Poshel na huy;
- na koi chert? - "for what?", "why the hell" in a vivid way, as na koi huy;
- cherta s dva! - "no way", as huy navstrechu;
- chert poberi - u...u..uns-translatible light damn, also cafe in Brooklyn with varety of vodka, borsh, salo and Danish cakes.
Elki-palki (or ellyu-palyu - literally "fir-trees-sticks"), Blyaha-Muha - same as Pizdec in a sad meaning, when something going wrong.
Neshtyak- same as Zaebis, Pizdato & Ohuitelno - hovewer has a criminal roots, using of it acceptable (aborigens will not say Nishtyak to mama, but you can).
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