卡奴

kǎnú
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 credit card slave (someone buried in credit card debt)

Examples

Tā shuā le hǎojǐ zhāng xìnyòngkǎ, chèdǐ chéng le kǎnú.
He maxed out several credit cards and became completely trapped in card debt.
Niánqīngrén yào lǐxìng xiāofèi, bié dāng kǎnú.
Young people should spend rationally — don't become a credit card slave.

Tips

usage
Part of the '-' ('slave to') suffix family used for debt-trapped groups: 房奴 (mortgage slave), 车奴 (car loan slave), 孩奴 (child-rearing slave). Terms surged in the 2000s–2010s as Chinese consumer credit expanded.

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