卡奴

kǎnú
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 credit card slave (someone buried in credit card debt)

Examples

Tā shuāle hǎo jǐ zhāng xìnyòngkǎ, chèdǐ chéngle kǎnú.
He maxed out several credit cards and became completely trapped in card debt.
Niánqīng rén yào lǐxìng xiāofèi, bié dāng kǎnú.
Young people should spend rationally — don't become a credit card slave.

Tips

usage
Part of the '-' ('slave to') suffix family used for debt-trapped groups: 房奴 (mortgage slave), 车奴 (car loan slave), 孩奴 (child-rearing slave). Terms surged in the 2000s–2010s as Chinese consumer credit expanded.

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