啃老族

啃老族 in English

kěn lǎo zú: (coll.) adults still living with and depending on their parents

Character breakdown

啃 kěn to gnaw
老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…
族 zú race

Stroke order

Le caractère 老 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 老

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 族 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 族

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

老

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
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族

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

她是啃老族。

She's still dependent on her parents.

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