房奴

fángnú

noun

Measure Word

一个房奴 gè

Meanings

1 mortgage slave
2 a person whose life is dominated by home-loan repayments

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Examples

为了在上海买房，他当了二十年的房奴。

Wèile zài Shànghǎi mǎi fáng, tā dāng le èrshí nián de fángnú.

To buy an apartment in Shanghai, he became a mortgage slave for twenty years.

房奴每个月最怕看到还款日。

Fángnú měi ge yuè zuì pà kàndào huánkuǎn rì.

Mortgage slaves dread seeing the repayment date every month.

Tips

culture

Part of a 2000s–2010s cluster of X奴 coinages: 房奴 (home-loan), 车奴 (car-loan), 卡奴 (credit-card), 孩奴 (raising-kids). All frame modern consumption as debt servitude.

Stroke Order

房 fáng

奴 nú