打金

dǎjīn

verb

Meanings

1 to gold-farm (in games)
2 to grind in-game currency for real-money trade

Characters

to hit / do / acquire

gold (in-game currency)

Examples

他高三毕业那个暑假天天打金。

Tā gāosān bìyè nà ge shǔjiǎ tiāntiān dǎjīn.

He gold-farmed every day during the summer after gaokao.

这款游戏不让打金,工作室都跑光了。

Zhè kuǎn yóuxì bú ràng dǎjīn, gōngzuòshì dōu pǎo guāng le.

This game cracks down on gold-farming, so all the farming studios have left.

Tips

culture

中国 was the global hub of MMO gold-farming in the 2000s — entire 工作室 (gōngzuòshì, 'studios') of players grinding currency in 魔兽世界 (WoW) and 传奇 (Legend of Mir) to sell to Western players. The phenomenon spawned Cory Doctorow's novel 'For the Win' (2010).

register

Gaming slang. The literal sense ('to forge gold' as a goldsmith) exists too but is much rarer in modern usage.

Stroke Order

打 dǎ

金 jīn