无壳蜗牛
wú​ké​wō​niú

renters unable to buy

  • created sense approved 无壳蜗牛/無殼蝸牛 · wú​ké​wō​niú · renters unable to buy — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    无壳蜗牛 / 無殼蝸牛

    wú​ké​wō​niú

    renters unable to buy

    (metaphor) people who cannot afford to buy their own home and must rent; literally "snails without shells"

    wú​ké​guā​niú

    无 (literal) → 无/無 · wú · to not have 壳 (literal) → 壳/殼 · ké · shell 蜗牛 (literal) → 蜗牛/蝸牛 · wō​niú · snail

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense