Chinese symbol for “prodigal”
败家子
bài jiā zǐ
Traditional: 敗家子
spendthrift; wastrel; prodigal
The closest CC-CEDICT match for prodigal is 败家子 (bài jiā zǐ), defined as: spendthrift; wastrel; prodigal.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “prodigal”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 败家子.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 失败 (失敗) | shī bài | to be defeated; to lose |
| 腐败 (腐敗) | fǔ bài | corruption; to corrupt |
| 打败 (打敗) | dǎ bài | to defeat; to overpower |
| 击败 (擊敗) | jī bài | to defeat; to beat |
| 战败 (戰敗) | zhàn bài | to lose a war |
| 败坏 (敗壞) | bài huài | to ruin; to corrupt |
| 国家 (國家) | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
See also: Japanese symbol for “prodigal”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.