Píča

Píča (), sometimes short piča or pyča /, 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 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.

The word píča is of a feminine gender, in order to insult also men Czechs derived its masculine form píčus.

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.Jan Čulík, Milan Kundera, 2000, electronic version on University of Glasgow website In Jára Cimrman's play Akt ("The Nude") one of the characters, sexologist Jan Turnovský, is caught drawing rhombi in his notepad.

Jaromír Nohavica confessed, in the 1983-song Halelujá, to "drawing short lines and rhombi on a plaster" (in Czech: tužkou kreslil na omítku čárečky a kosočtverce).Jaromír Nohavica - oficiální web - Tvorba - Texty František Ringo Čech named one of his provoking pictures The animals are admiring píča (in Czech: Zvířátka obdivují píču). The Czech punk band Tři sestry (Three Sisters) uses a variant of the píča symbol with three vertical lines, similar to the IEC 60417 Class III symbol, as its logo.

Píča in Ostrava region In Moravian-Silesian Region, especially in Ostrava, the word is used strictly in its short form pyča, mostly as a filler. The fans of football club FC Baník Ostrava very often chant "Banik pyčo, Banik pyčo, FCB!". Pyča is used in plenty of meanings, there is even a joke ridiculing Ostrava inhabitants; according to this joke the people there have a lack of vocabulary so if a man says "Pyča v pyči, pyčo!", he means "I broke up with my wife, my friend!".To clarify, in the Ostrava region, the word "píča" is not commonly used with the letter "y." Instead, the pronunciation typically replaces the accented "í" with a regular "i." This local variation in pronunciation is specific to Ostrava and differs from the standard pronunciation found in other regions.

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