塌房

tāfáng

verb

Meanings

1 idol's fall from grace
2 celebrity scandal
3 to have one's idol exposed

Characters

to collapse; to cave in

Literally 'house collapse' — the idol's carefully built public image crumbling

Examples

我的偶像塌房了，好难过。

Wǒ de ǒuxiàng tāfáng le, hǎo nánguò.

My idol got exposed in a scandal — I'm so upset.

最近娱乐圈塌房的太多了。

Zuìjìn yúlèquān tāfáng de tài duō le.

Too many celebrities have fallen from grace recently.

追星有风险，随时可能塌房。

Zhuīxīng yǒu fēngxiǎn, suíshí kěnéng tāfáng.

Being a fan is risky — your idol could get exposed at any time.

Tips

culture

塌房 (house collapse) became widely used during the wave of Chinese celebrity scandals in 2021-2022 (e.g., Kris Wu, Zheng Shuang). It describes the moment when a fan's idealized image of their idol 'collapses' due to a scandal being exposed.

memory

Imagine building a beautiful house (your ideal image of a celebrity) — then it suddenly collapses when scandal hits. That's 塌房.

Stroke Order

塌 tā

房 fáng