丁克
dīng kè
Pinyin

Definition

丁克
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dīng kè
  1. Dual Income, No Kids (DINK) (loanword)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

克
Kè
  1. 1 abbr. for 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[Kè luó dì yà], Croatia
  2. 2 (Tw) abbr. for 克羅埃西亞|克罗埃西亚[Kè luó āi xī yà], Croatia
克服
kè fú
  1. 1 (try to) overcome (hardships etc)
  2. 2 to conquer
  3. 3 to put up with
  4. 4 to endure
巧克力
qiǎo kè lì
  1. 1 chocolate (loanword)
  2. 2 classifier: 块 kuài
德克萨斯
Dé kè sà sī
  1. 1 Texas
扑克
pū kè
  1. 1 poker (game) (loanword)
  2. 2 playing cards

Idioms (11)

不知丁董
bù zhī Dīng Dǒng
  1. 1 forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom)
  2. 2 unheeding the lessons of the past
付之丙丁
fù zhī bǐng dīng
  1. 1 to burn down (idiom)
以柔克刚
yǐ róu kè gāng
  1. 1 to use softness to conquer strength (idiom)
克勤克俭
kè qín kè jiǎn
  1. 1 to be industrious and frugal (idiom)
克己复礼
kè jǐ fù lǐ
  1. 1 restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties
  2. 2 (any number of possible translations)

Sample Sentences

小明的老婆想做丁克族，可小明是家中的独子，老头老太都等着抱孙子传宗接代的，你说能答应吗？这才拖了这么多年。
Xiǎo Míng de lǎopó xiǎngzuò dīngkèzú ，kě Xiǎo Míng shì jiāzhōng de dúzǐ ，lǎotóu lǎotài dōu děng zhe bào sūnzi chuánzōngjiēdài de ，nǐ shuō néng dāying ma ？zhè cái tuō le zhème duō nián 。
Xiaoming's wife wants to be a DINK (double income no kids) couple, but Xiaoming is an only son, so his mum and dad were expecting to have grandchildren to cuddle and carry on the family line. Could you agree to that? That's why it took this many years.
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没想到小明家那位的思想这么前卫啊，这丁克族在中国的阻力可大得去了。
méixiǎngdào Xiǎo Míng jiā nà wèi de sīxiǎng zhème qiánwèi ā ，zhè dīngkèzú zài Zhōngguó de zǔlì kě dàdeqùle 。
I never thought that Xiaoming was so forward thinking, there's a lot of resistance to the DINK concept in China.
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你们这些丁克啊，挑战了“养儿防老”的传统观念，但这样一来，家庭的保障功能，就得靠社会福利机制的完善才能达成了。
nǐmen zhèxiē dīngkè ā ，tiǎozhàn le “yǎng\'érfánglǎo ”de chuántǒng guānniàn ，dàn zhèyàngyīlái ，jiātíng de bǎozhàng gōngnéng ，jiù děi kào shèhuì fúlì jīzhì de wánshàn cáinéng dáchéng le 。
You DINK couples are really challenging the traditional notion of "raising kids to look after you in old age". However, this way, you need to rely on a comprehensive social welfare system to safeguard your families.
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我都跟您谈过多少次了，我们想做丁克家庭。没小孩不是挺好的嘛。
wǒ dōu gēn nín tán guo duōshao cì le ，wǒmen xiǎng zuò dīngkè jiātíng 。méi xiǎohái bùshì tǐng hǎo de ma 。
Mom, I've discussed this with you so many times already. We want to have a D.I.N.K. family. Not having any kids might be pretty nice, no?
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