塌房

Chinese

		collapse	house
trad. (塌房)		塌	房
simp. #(塌房)		塌	房

Etymology

From a Korean meme 저쪽 집이 무너졌다고 해서 구경하러 갔죠, from the Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) TV program Traces of UFOs? A harbinger of the end of the world? | 'Sinkhole' seen through the eyes, featuring a woman's description of her rubbernecking a house collapse, then realizing that it was her own house.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāfáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ ㄈㄤˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāfáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ ㄈㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tafáng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻa¹-fang²
    • Yale: tā-fáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tafarng
    • Palladius: тафан (tafan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰä⁵⁵ fɑŋ³⁵/

Verb

塌⫽房 (verb-object) (intransitive)

1. (neologism, slang, figuratively) to have a “collapse” of one's public image, due to a scandal