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  sai2 baan2   jyutping
  xi3 ban3   pinyin
refers to a person making many useless, undesirable, or off-topic comments in an online message forum making it virtually unreadable to follow the message thread. The word comes from a mistyped reference to overlay advertisements for (skin wash) which cover the entire screen.

This is a Cangjie "pun" on in that and share the same Cangjie code (DHE: 木竹) and a mistyped reference to became and the word stuck, probably because message boards are involved and it was judged as comedic.
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Level: 4
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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This word has been viewed 1307 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by Steph_fr on 18th May 2009 06:44 and last edited on 15th Jun 2009 20:08
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Characters in this word:

 sai2  -  wash; clear; sack; develop; shuffle
 baan2  -  printing plate; edition
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