卡奴

kǎnú
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 4
Tā shuā le hǎojǐ zhāng xìnyòngkǎ, chèdǐ chéng le kǎnú.
He maxed out several credit cards and became completely trapped in card debt.
HSK 7-9
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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