棺材瓤子

guāncairángzi

noun

Meanings

1 geezer with one foot in the grave
2 (jocular or insulting) decrepit old person, 'coffin filling'

Characters

material (here: coffin's wood)

pulp / flesh / filling

Examples

你这老棺材瓤子，还想跟年轻人比？

Nǐ zhè lǎo guāncairángzi, hái xiǎng gēn niánqīngrén bǐ?

You old coffin-stuffer, you still want to compete with young people?

他自嘲说自己是个棺材瓤子了。

Tā zìcháo shuō zìjǐ shì ge guāncairángzi le.

He joked self-deprecatingly that he was already a 'coffin filler.'

Tips

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Earthy and pretty rough — used as a curse from a younger person to an elder, or jokingly as self-deprecation by old people themselves. 瓤子 (rángzi) literally means the 'flesh/pulp' of a fruit, so this calls someone 'coffin filling.' Don't aim it at strangers.

Stroke Order

棺 guān

材 cái

瓤 ráng

子 zǐ