內卷 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 内卷 nèijuǎn ㄋㄟˋ ㄐㄩㄢˇ 男 女 to involute involution embryology (neologism, attested by 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources) Character by character 內(nèi)inside 卷(juǎn)hypercompetitive Other words read nèijuǎn neijuan with other tones 內眷 Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0