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搬砖

搬磚
bānzhuān
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to do hard physical labor
  2. 2 (slang) to grind at a thankless job
  3. 3 (slang) to play mahjong

Examples

我又要去搬砖了,下周见。
Wǒ yòu yào qù bānzhuān le, xià zhōu jiàn.
Back to the daily grind — see you next week.
周末不加班,和朋友搬搬砖。
Zhōumò bù jiābān, hé péngyou bānbān zhuān.
No overtime this weekend — going to play some mahjong with friends.

Tips

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Originally "hauling bricks" (construction-site labor). As office-worker slang since the 2010s, a self-deprecating way to describe mundane salaried work. The mahjong sense is a punning reference to the brick-shaped tiles.

Stroke Order

搬 bān
砖 zhuān