What Does This Mean?

饭搭子

[ SLANG ][ MULTILINGUAL NATIVE ]

FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: Chinese Internet CultureCLUSTER: social_relationship_labels

Literally "meal buddy"; Chinese internet slang for a person one regularly eats with, a bounded companionship that does not have to become a deeper friendship. It is the most common kind of 搭子 relationship.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"She told her coworker, "你是我最靠谱的饭搭子.""

LORE & ORIGIN

An article on Woshipm dated 2023-04-28 describes 搭子 as a newer online social relationship built on companionship, with 饭搭子 the most common type; it cites a DT Finance survey of 1,431 people in which 82.4% had at least one meal buddy, and notes that 搭子 appears in a 2007 Shanghai dialect dictionary in the older sense of card-playing partners. No coiner or first use of 饭搭子 itself is documented. The general 搭子 pattern is covered by the existing dazi entry; this one is specific to eating together.

FIRST SEEN

Unknown (documented in 2022-2023 Chinese media; no dated first use)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2022-2023

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CN饭搭子 →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

↓ FADING

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

[ SLANG ][ MULTILINGUAL NATIVE ]

RELATED TERMS

搭子

MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

Unknown (documented in 2022-2023 Chinese media; no dated first use)

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