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 ㄍㄨㄤㄗㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ gwong¹ zuk⁶
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁸yuq-kuaon-zoq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yuèguāngzú
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ ㄍㄨㄤㄗㄨˊ
  - 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
- (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

people who live paycheck to paycheck

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