微氪

wēikè

verb

Meanings

1 to spend a little on a game (light whaling)
2 to be a low-spend player

Characters

krypton (slang for spending real money)

Examples

HSK 7-9

我就是微氪玩家，每个月充几十块。

Wǒ jiùshì wēikè wánjiā, měige yuè chōng jǐshí kuài.

I'm just a light spender - I top up a few dozen yuan a month.

HSK 7-9

微氪也能玩得很爽，不用大氪。

Wēikè yě néng wán de hěn shuǎng, búyòng dàkè.

You can have fun spending only a little - no need to whale hard.

Tips

culture

氪 means krypton, but in gaming slang it's a homophone-ish play on 'spending real money' - the Chinese 课金 (paying real money in mobile games) was abbreviated and rewritten as 氪金. Tier ladder: 白嫖 (free-to-play), 微氪 (light spend), 中氪 (medium), 大氪 / 重氪 (whale), 氪佬 (krypton overlord, big whale).

register

Pure gamer-internet slang - won't appear in formal writing.

Stroke Order

微 wēi

氪 kè