Updated July 2026
What does 栓Q mean?
栓Q (shuān Q) means thanks, I hate it / I'm so done in gen-z Chinese slang. "Thank you" — almost always sarcastic or exasperated, meaning something left you speechless or fed up. Literally, it means "a phonetic spelling of English "thank you"".
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A tour guide's heavily accented 'thank you' once sounded like 栓Q, shuān Q, and the internet never let go. It means thanks — but almost always the sarcastic, I'm-so-done kind. 又加班到半夜，栓Q了. Thanks. Hate it. Goodnight.
Example
又加班到半夜，栓Q了。
Yòu jiābān dào bànyè, shuān Q le.
Overtime till midnight again — thanks, I hate it.
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Where 栓Q comes from
A Guangxi tour guide's accented English "thank you" sounded like 栓Q in a viral 2022 video. Massively overused since, so it now reads as cringe.
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