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

HSK 6

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.

HSK 7-9

打工族最怕的就是每月还房贷。

Dǎgōngzú zuì pà de jiùshì měiyuè huán fángdài.

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

Tips

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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