赛博对账

賽博對賬

sàibóduìzhàng

phrase

Meanings

1 'cyber account-settling'; strangers online voluntarily sharing real income, savings or debt figures so everyone can compare notes
2 a radical-transparency social-media practice that pushes back against curated highlight reels

Characters

Examples

小红书最近流行赛博对账。

Xiǎohóngshū zuìjìn liúxíng sàibóduìzhàng.

Cyber account-settling is trending on Xiaohongshu lately.

她发了一条赛博对账的帖子,曝光了真实工资。

Tā fā le yì tiáo sàibóduìzhàng de tiězi, pùguāng le zhēnshí gōngzī.

She posted a 'cyber reckoning' revealing her actual salary.

赛博对账让我发现同行工资都比我高。

Sàibóduìzhàng ràng wǒ fāxiàn tóngháng gōngzī dōu bǐ wǒ gāo.

The cyber-reckoning trend made me realize everyone in my field earns more than me.

Tips

culture

Emerged in 2025 as a pushback against filtered social media. Users post honest screenshots—bank balances, pay stubs, medical bills, credit-card statements—and strangers reply with their own. The result is a weirdly intimate cross-section of what life actually costs, part catharsis and part collective wage transparency. Named a 2025 Top 10 buzzword by 《咬文嚼字》.

usage

赛博 (cyber-, loanword from English 'cyber') is a productive prefix: 赛博朋克 cyberpunk, 赛博监控 cyber-surveillance, 赛博男友 virtual boyfriend. 对账 is an accounting term for 'reconciling accounts'—applied here to bills but also life comparisons.

Stroke Order

赛 sài

博 bó

对 duì

账 zhàng