败家

敗家
bàijiā
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to squander the family fortune
  2. 2 to ruin one's family
  3. 3 to splurge; to go on a spending spree

Examples

HSK 5
Shuāngshíyī wǒ yòu bàijiā le, mǎi le yì duī méiyòng de dōngxi.
On Singles' Day I went on another spending spree and bought a pile of useless stuff.
HSK 7-9
Tā tài bàijiā le, yí ge yuè jiù huāguāng le fùmǔ de jīxù.
He's such a spendthrift: he blew through his parents' savings in a month.

Tips

culture
Squandering the 家业 (family estate) handed down through the generations was a grave failing, and 败家子 is the spendthrift son who does it. Online the word has softened into a joke people make about their own shopping binges.

Stroke Order

败 bài
家 jiā