Píča

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Drawing of the symbol píča

Píča (Czech pronunciation: [piːtʃa]), sometimes short piča or pyča [pɪtʃa], is a Czech and Slovak profanity that refers to the vagina similar to the English word cunt. Literally, the word means "spear" or "pike". It is often represented as a symbol of a spearhead, a rhombus standing on one of its sharper points; these points are connected by a vertical line representing a vulva.

The meaning is clear for most Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians. In some other languages it has other spellings (eg. in the non-Slavic Hungarian language it is written as "picsa"), but has similar pronunciation and carries the same meaning and profanity. Drawing this symbol is considered a taboo, or at least unaccepted by mainstream society.^{[citation needed]}

Symbol in culture

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]

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See also

• Lozenge- a similar symbol

Notes

1. ^ Jan Čulík, Milan Kundera, 2000, electronic version on University of Glasgow website
2. ^ [1]

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