孩奴

háinú

noun

Meanings

1 child slave (parents who exhaust themselves financially and emotionally for their child)
2 parents enslaved by child-rearing costs

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

不想当孩奴是很多年轻人不生的理由。

Bù xiǎng dāng háinú shì hěnduō niánqīngrén bù shēng de lǐyóu.

Not wanting to be enslaved by childcare is a reason many young people don't have kids.

HSK 6

生完孩子以后，她觉得自己成了孩奴。

Shēng wán háizi yǐhòu, tā juéde zìjǐ chéng le háinú.

After having the baby, she felt like she had become a child slave.

Tips

culture

Part of a family of 2000s-era 奴 (slave) coinages: 房奴 (mortgage slave), 车奴 (car-loan slave), 孩奴 (child slave). They reflect anxiety over how major life milestones trap urban Chinese in financial grind.

Stroke Order

孩 hái

奴 nú