钟摆族 (zhong1 bai3 zu2)
pendulum clan
This term refers to those young white-collar workers who travel a long distance between their offices and homes in the Yangtze River Delta area. It usually takes at least two hours to go from one place to another by train, bus or car.

奶油妈妈 (nai3 yo2u ma1 ma1)
milky mom
The term refers to mothers who, after the prescribed four-month maternity leave, have to go back to work but keep feeding their babies with their own milk. So, they have to find time and proper places to collect their milk during work hours and then bring the milk home after work. Since thousands of babies have recently fallen sick after taking some tainted milk powder products, the “milky mom” has become a healthy trend.

肾结石宝宝 (shen3 jie2 shi2 bao3 bao3)
kidney stone baby
It was recently brought to light that thousands of infants in China developed kidney stone diseases after taking melamine-tainted milk formula. Melamine, which may lead to reproductive damage, or bladder or kidney stones if ingested, has been found in a few milk powder products prepared for infants.

抠抠族 (kou1 kou1 zu2)
eke-out clan
Some young office workers in large cities like Shanghai who have a meager income have to think of varied ways to save money to pay their mortgages or to cover their wedding costs.

闪离 (shan3 li2)
speed divorce
While some people, especially those born in the 1980s, don’t hesitate to wait a while before getting married, others don’t have a second thought about getting a divorce once marriage crisis arises.

贴秋膘 (tie1 qiu1 biao1)
flesh out in autumn
Traditionally, autumn is a harvest season and thought of as a season of plenty. Also, the cool temperature brings back the appetite of many people who lost weight in the long, sweltering and often sleep-depriving summer. Therefore, autumn is also a good season for people to recover and store up much needed energy.

大小非减持 (d4 xiao3 fei1 jian3 chi2)
sale of non-tradable shares
China has been actively, and cautiously, encouraging the reform of the system of non-tradable shares in listed companies, as such stocks pose potential damage to the healthy growth of the country’s securities markets.

直升机父母（zhi1 sheng1 ji1 fu4 mu3）
helicopter parents
The term refers to parents who are always obsessively worried about their children’s future and safety and prefer to do everything for them. They are hovering over their children like helicopters, watchful and noisy.

现代病 (xian4 dai4 bing4)
modern disease
It refers to diseases and physical disorders believed, or proven, to have been caused by modern lifestyle, like staying in air-conditioned space or using computers too long.

太空人 (tai4 kong1 ren2)
frequent jet traveler
Some people like businessmen or popular showbiz artists who have to, or like to, fly around the world frequently.

语言暴力 (yu3 yan2 bao4 li4)
verbal violence
Among all types of violence, verbal violence is the most common. Now the term is used to mean slogans, remarks and language used in online discussions that are full of violent and abusive words or expletives.

收声 (shou1 sheng1)
shut up
The Chinese expression, once often used in formal context, is now frequently used at online platforms and media publications to mean stop talking or discussing.

街拍 (jie1 pai1)
street snapshot
Many shutterbugs these days upload the pictures they have taken on the street onto the Internet to share with others.

人球 (ren2 qiu2)
helpless castaway
The term, literally meaning “human ball”, refers to poor people for whom no one is willing to provide help. They are kicked around by people just like a tattered football. The term “little human ball” describes those kids whose parents have divorced and neither is willing to look after them.

睡眠博客 (shui4 mian2 bo2 ke4)
dormant blog
The term refers to those blogs that are rarely updated by their writers. Statistics show that on average, over 70 percent of blogs are not updated each month.

迷卡 (mi2 ka3)
mini card
It refers to portable digital input cards with handwriting functions, usually in the size of a name card. It proves to be a welcome alternative to keying text into phones or other electronic devices.

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紫领 (zi3 ling3)
purple-collar
The people in this group have the brains of the white-collar and the skills of the blue-collar. They are practical, progressive and have unrivaled personal presence that earns them far more income than white-collars and golden-collars combined.

格子店 (ge2 zi1 dian4)
pigeonhole shop
A kind of store where cabinet boxes are rented out to different people to sell various types of goods. It has become popular among young people, especially white-collars as they don’t have to stay in the store themselves.

吸金 (xi1 jin1)
money spinning, money making
This term translates literally “sucking gold.” It actually refers to any enterprise, project or person that rakes in a lot of money.

陪读 (pei2 du2)
student guardian/companion
In early times, this term referred to a youngster who was assigned to be a study mate for the offspring of a rich family. Nowadays, it is used to describe anyone who accompanies a child or spouse during his/her study overseas.

自然醒 (zi4 ran2 xing3)
wake-up naturally
How urban employees wish to wake up with their bio-clock, not the alarm clock! But under the pressure of fast-paced city life, having a sound sleep and waking up naturally has become a luxury for many urban workers.

姐弟恋 (jie3 di4 lian4)
cradle snatcher
"sister-younger brother love,"as this term means literally, refers to a woman's romance with a much younger male partner. It is not only reflected in the couple's appearance, but also in their roles in this relationship.

低碳族 (di1 tan4 zu2)
low-CO2 clan
This refers to the group of conservationists and nature lovers who try to minimize carbon dioxide emissions in daily life, for example, switching off PCs when not using them, shunning goods with excessive packaging, and rejecting the use of plastic bags.

虚拟奴隶 (xu1 ni3 nu2 li4)
online slave
"Buy me as your slave" is now a greeting among some Chinese online users. Similar to "Friends for Sale"application in www.facebook.com, this application offered by www.kaixin001.com gives users a whole new experience compared with other run-of-the-mill social networking Websites. www.kaixin001.com is a new entrant to the Chinese SNS (social networking service). At "Friends for Sale"each user can be sold as a "slave"twice every day through the virtual payment system. The "Owners"can earn money by forcing the "Slaves"to work as singers, miners or toilet cleaners. or, they could just be "tortured"for fun.

狂扫族 (kuang2 sao3 zu2)
crazy shopper
Some shoppers buy whatever is available at a sale only for the cheap prices ?the extreme example of impulsive buying.

租奴 (zu1 nu2)
house-rent slave
Some people in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, especially those young workers from other provinces, have to take out a big part of their salary to pay their rent.

博客圈 (bo2 ke4 quan1)
blogosphere
It refers to the communities or social networks that comprise all blogs and their interconnection.

头像 (tou2 xiang4)
avatar
This term refers to the model or icon used in the chatrooms, MSN, QQ and other online communities or games, to represent a user or participant. It’s usually a three-dimensional model in computer games or a two-dimensional icon in Internet forums.

穿衣经 (chuan1 yi1 jing1)
dressing manual
Many newspapers and magazines these days run a special column discussing the trendy, and mostly correct, ways of getting dressed.

百恼汇 (bai3 nao3 hui4)
middle-age crisis
The term has a similar pronunciation to “Buynow,” the name of a computer market, in Chinese. Meaning “a host of worries” it is now used to describe the lifestyle crisis facing many middle-aged people.

博斗 (bo2 dou4)
blog bickering
The term is a homonym of the Chinese word “fight,” but it conjoins two Chinese characters that can mean “blog” and “fight,” respectively. So, the phrase refers to Netizens tilting at each other on their blogs.

白托 (bai2 tuo1)
daytime care service
The term refers to a government project aiming to improve community care for senior citizens. The community center will serve the elderly lunches and dinners and organize some recreational activities for them during the day.

团子 (tuan2 zi)
panda
The Chinese term is one of the nicknames for panda and it literally means dumplings. People use this to describe the round-shaped, fatty pandas. Other popular nicknames include gun gun (滚滚), which means rolling in Chinese, also used to describe roly-poly pandas.