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. It is often represented as a symbol of a spearhead, a rhombus standing on one of its sharper points with a vertical line in the middle, representing a vulva.

The meaning is clear for most Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians. In some other languages it has other spellings (e.g. 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.

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 havoc, both public and private, that ensues after the Headmaster of a school draws the symbol on a blackboard.

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).

Pa

PA, Pa, pA, or pa may refer to:

Linguistics

  • Pa (Javanese) (ꦥ), a letter in the Javanese script
  • Punjabi language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code pa)
  • Military

  • , a fortified Māori village
  • Pakistan Army
  • Philippine Army
  • Organisations

  • Florida Coastal Airlines (IATA airline designator) (1995+)
  • PA Consulting Group
  • Pan American World Airways (IATA airline designator) (–1991)
  • Phillips Academy, a private secondary school in Massachusetts, United States
  • Press Association, the UK and Ireland's national multimedia news agency
  • Professional association, a type of business organization
  • Other uses

  • Palestinian National Authority, also called Palestinian Authority
  • Pascal (unit), the S.I. unit of pressure
  • Protactinium, IUPAC symbol a chemical element with symbol Pa and atomic number 91
  • ALCO PA, a railroad locomotive
  • Live PA, a live performance artist or personal appearance
  • Pa, an affectionate term for father
  • Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, the mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people
  • PA, the postal service abbreviation for Pennsylvania, a state in the United States
  • P&A

    P&A or P and A may stand for:

  • Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad
  • Phenol and alcohol procedure, used to surgically treat an ingrown toenail, also called a chemical matrixectomy
  • Prints and Advertising (P&A), a term from film distribution
  • See also

  • Pa (disambiguation)
  • Podcasts:

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