深漂

shēnpiāo

noun

Meanings

1 Shenzhen drifter, someone from elsewhere working in Shenzhen without a local hukou
2 to drift to Shenzhen for work

Characters

Shenzhen (short for 深圳)

to drift; to float

Examples

HSK 2

他是一个深漂，来深圳已经五年了。

Tā shì yí ge shēnpiāo, lái Shēnzhèn yǐjīng wǔ nián le.

He's a Shenzhen drifter; it's been five years since he came to the city.

HSK 4

深漂十年后，她终于在这座城市买了房。

Shēnpiāo shí nián hòu, tā zhōngyú zài zhè zuò chéngshì mǎi le fáng.

After ten years of drifting in Shenzhen, she finally bought a home there.

Tips

usage

Built like 北漂: 深 is short for 深圳, and 漂 'to drift' pictures a life without roots or a local hukou. The Shanghai version is 沪漂.

culture

Shenzhen grew from a small town into a city of migrants after 1980, and its slogan 来了就是深圳人 'once you come, you are a Shenzhener' speaks to exactly these newcomers.

Stroke Order

深 shēn

漂 piāo