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CNeo-Bench: Diagnosing Large Language Models on Chinese Neologisms

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 28, 2026 · UTC

Chinese neologisms exploit diverse and unique linguistic mechanisms, such as phonetic substitution (e.g., 886 for ``bye-bye'') and visual character decomposition that are rare in other languages. We introduce CNeo-Bench, a benchmark of 4,759 such neologisms with reference definitions, organized into five top-level categories and nine subcategories by the linguistic mechanism behind each expression. CNeo-Bench is paired with a two-tier evaluation framework that separates whether a model can describe a neologism from whether it can operate on its underlying mechanism. Evaluating 18 LLMs, we find

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