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[–] feedum_sneedson 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Calqued "hot dog" (热狗) with transliterated "doughnut" (多拿滋), which is like "lots of - get - (to) grow/nourish" if you attempt to parse it as a real Chinese word (character meanings often influence the specific transliteration). The "zī" character (滋) is also used phonetically in the transliteration of AIDS (艾滋病), which is the connection, but I still can't really see how this happened.

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