May 21

晒黑族 (shai 4hei1zu2)
injustice exposer
It refers to Netizens who team up to expose social injustice or corrupt officials by posting articles on the Internet in the hope of attracting attention from authorities, and urging them to take action.

住家男人 (zhu4jia1 nan2ren2)
house-husband
A small proportion of married men in large cities quit their job to stay home doing all the chores and taking care of the child, as their wives usually have high-paying jobs.

沃客 (wo4ke4)
work 2.0
This is a new type of Internet-based service trading market. Companies or individuals may post their assignments (usually for graphic design, logos or innovative ideas) on a Website and anyone may bid for the assignments. Some people call work 2.0 the "business version" of Web 2.0.

辣妈 (la4ma1)
yummy mummy
Compared with people's traditional thoughts of a mother, a yummy mummy usually looks sexy and has an open-minded air. As younger women become mothers, the number of yummy mummies is on the rise.

掘客 (jue2ke4)
digg
This is a new kind of Website on which Netizens can publish any story. If other Internet users like the story, they can click on it, and the more clicks a story receives, the more likely it will move to the Website's front page.

带病提拔 (dai4bing4 ti2ba2)
promote problematic official
China calls for a strict appraisal of government officials to avoid promoting problematic ones, such as those who are involved in corruption cases.

走婚族 (zou3hun1zu2)
weekend spouses
Some young couples in large Chinese cities live with their respective parents during the working week and live together in their own home only at weekends. The expression comes from a tradition in some matriarchal areas of Yunnan Province where a grown-up woman can invite men to live with her and dismisses them after a child is born.

空窗期 (kong1chuang1qi1)
dry spell, available
The "open-window period," as the Chinese term translates verbatim, refers to a respite when a person is not dating anyone after a break-up.

藏牌车 (cang2pai2che1)
plate-hiding vehicle
Some drivers cover their vehicle plates with papers, mud or other objects so that they can violate traffic rules without being caught by police or traffic cameras.