孔雀女

kǒngquènǚ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 pampered city girl from a wealthy urban family
  2. 2 peacock girl (internet slang)

Examples

Tā shì fènghuángnán, tā shì kǒngquènǚ, liǎng jiā bèijǐng chà tài duō.
He's a 'phoenix man' and she's a 'peacock girl'; their family backgrounds are too different.
Nà zhǒng cóngxiǎo bèi chǒng dà de kǒngquènǚ, gēnběn bù dǒng shēnghuó de kǔ.
That kind of peacock girl, pampered from childhood, has no idea of life's hardships.

Tips

culture
孔雀女 is the counterpart of 凤凰男 (a self-made man from a poor rural family). The pairing became a staple of Chinese marriage-market discourse around 2010.
memory
Peacock (孔雀) = showy, beautiful, raised in comfort — the image of a girl who's never had to work for anything.

Stroke Order

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