月光族

Chinese

		month; monthly	to use up	race; nationality; ethnicity race; nationality; ethnicity; clan
trad. (月光族)		月	光	族
simp. #(月光族)		月	光	族

Etymology

Reanalysis of 月光 (yuèguāng, “moonlight”) as 一到月底就把零用錢用光光／一到月底就把零用钱用光光 ("to spend all of one's spare cash by the end of the month") + 族 (zú, “a category of people”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuèguāngzú

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ ㄍㄨㄤ ㄗㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ gwong¹ zuk⁶
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸yuq-kuaon-zoq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuèguāngzú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ ㄍㄨㄤ ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuèguangzú
    • Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴-kuang¹-tsu²
    • Yale: ywè-gwāng-dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuehguangtzwu
    • Palladius: юэгуанцзу (jueguanczu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵¹ ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡su³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyut⁶ gwong¹ zuk⁶
    • Yale: yuht gwōng juhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ gwong¹ dzuk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ guong¹ zug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚² kʷɔːŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʊk̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸yuq-kuaon-zoq
    • MiniDict: yuih^入 kuaon zoh
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵hhyq-kuaan-zoq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦyɪʔ¹¹ kuɑ̃²² zoʔ²³/

Idiom

月光族

1. people who live paycheck to paycheck