微氪 (wēikè): to spend a little on a game (li…

Meanings

1 to spend a little on a game (light whaling)
2 to be a low-spend player

Characters

微

krypton (slang for spending real money)

Examples

我就是微氪玩家,每个月充几十块。

Wǒ jiù shì wēikè wánjiā, měi ge yuè chōng jǐ shí kuài.

I'm just a light spender — I top up a few dozen yuan a month.

微氪也能玩得很爽,不用大氪。

Wēikè yě néng wán de hěn shuǎng, búyòng dàkè.

You can have fun spending only a little — no need to whale hard.

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culture

氪 (kè) means krypton, but in gaming slang it's a homophone-ish play on 'spending real money' — the Chinese 课金 (kèjīn, paying real money in mobile games) was abbreviated and rewritten as 氪金 (kèjīn). Tier ladder: 白嫖 (báipiáo, free-to-play) → 微氪 (light spend) → 中氪 (medium) → 大氪 / 重氪 (whale) → 氪佬 (krypton overlord, big whale).

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Pure gamer-internet slang — won't appear in formal writing.