啃老族

kěnlǎozú

noun

Measure Word

一个啃老族 gè

Meanings

1 adult children still dependent on their parents
2 NEET generation; "parent-gnawers"

Characters

old; the elderly

Examples

他大学毕业后当了五年的啃老族。

Tā dàxué bìyè hòu dāng le wǔ nián de kěnlǎozú.

After graduating he spent five years living off his parents.

房价这么高，年轻人很容易变成啃老族。

Fángjià zhème gāo, niánqīngrén hěn róngyì biànchéng kěnlǎozú.

With housing prices this high, young people easily end up depending on their parents.

Tips

memory

Literally "gnaw-old-tribe" — the image is of a grown child gnawing at their parents' savings like a bone. Appears in Chinese media from the early 2000s, modeled on the Japanese term パラサイト・シングル.

Stroke Order

啃 kěn

老 lǎo

族 zú