山寨币

山寨幣
shānzhàibì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 altcoin
  2. 2 shitcoin (cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin, often of dubious quality)

Examples

Tóuzī shānzhàibì fēngxiǎn hěn dà, hěn róngyì guīlíng.
Investing in altcoins is very risky — they can easily go to zero.
Zhè lún niúshì hěn duō shānzhàibì fān le shí bèi yǐshàng.
In this bull run a lot of altcoins went up more than 10x.

Tips

culture
山寨 originally meant 'mountain stronghold' (bandit hideout), then came to mean 'knockoff' for fake electronics. Applied to crypto, it labels anything that isn't 比特币/以太坊 as a copycat. Carries stronger negative connotations than English 'altcoin'.

Stroke Order

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