In the Serenity-verse, it’s 500 years in the future and the eastern and western cultures have mixed into this neat little super-culture.

One of the easily identifiable points is that everybody can speak and read chinese as well as english.

I found a site that translates much of the series, the movie, and the comics’ chinese dialogue.

Not sure if they are accurate but fan translations usually aren’t far from the mark.

My favorites are:

Dong Ma
“understand?”

Ta ma de!
Ta ma duh!
“F*** me blind!”

Tian sha de e mo.
“Tyen-sah duh UH-muo.”
“Goddamn monsters.”

tian xiao de
“tyen shiao duh”
name of all that’s sacred

Wo de ma.
“Wuh de ma.”
“Mother of god.”

gou shi
“gos se”
“crap”

Course, people in China probably thinking, ‘What the fuck is that!?’

UPDATE: A new site houses all of this: Firefly – Serenity Chinese Pinyinary