打工族

dǎgōngzú

noun

Meanings

1 wage workers (collective)
2 the salaried-employee class
3 office drones / working stiffs

Characters

to do / to work

Examples

打工族最怕的就是每月还房贷。

Dǎgōngzú zuì pà de jiùshì měi yuè huán fángdài.

The thing wage workers dread most is the monthly mortgage payment.

星期一早上,打工族的早高峰又开始了。

Xīngqīyī zǎoshang, dǎgōngzú de zǎo gāofēng yòu kāishǐ le.

Monday morning — the wage-worker rush hour starts up again.

Tips

register

Slightly self-deprecating urban slang, popularized via 2020 Weibo/Xiaohongshu memes around 打工人 ('worker' as badge of solidarity). The 族 suffix marks a demographic tribe (cf. 上班族, 追星族, 月光族). Often pairs with black humor: 打工是不可能打工的 (famous mock-rebel quote).

Stroke Order

打 dǎ

工 gōng

族 zú