The house of Babel

May 12, 2008

suffix ~族(zú)

Filed under: Chinese — admin @ 2:28 pm

族(zú) is originally referred to a group that had a common attribute.

For example, 家族,民族

In internet society, it got a new meaning : a group of persons who have some joint characteristic , interest or hobby.

You can think that the Japanese word 暴走族 had influence on the new nouns with ~族(zú) in Chinese.

For example,

狼族(lángzú): to express the group of persons that love women but not bother them so much.

月光族(yuèguāngzú):moonlight, to express the persons who spend all of the salary that they earned every month.

乐活族(lèhuózú): comes from “LOHAS” (Life styles of Health and Sustainability)

奔奔族(bēnbenzú): Rushing clan, to express the person who were born1975~1985 in China and has a lot of pressure in their life

房贷族(fángdàizú)

鸟人族(niǎorénzú)Bird people
布波族/波波族(bùyīzú/bōbozú)Bo-bos
拼一族(pīnyīzú) The pooling clan
飘一族(piāoyīzú)Drifting generation
飞特族(fēitèzú)Freeters

追星族(zhuīxīngzú)

哈日族(hārìzú)
Also you can use 有车一族(yǒuchēyīzú) to express the persons who have their own cars

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