Neologismi e buzzwords dal 2020 cinese: analisi del lessico riferito alla pandemia

The diffusion of Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact also on language use: new words appeared, other took new meanings and still others have replaced already existing units. This process of change and adaptation to a new circumstance has taken place also in Chinese, adopting the features of morphology and neology typical of this language. This paper describes a selection of Chinese neologisms and buzzwords concerning the pandemic.