gǔn

common

Meaning of 驴打滚

驴打滚 means usurious loan with snowballing compound interest; traditional Beijing snack made of steamed yellow millet dough coated in soybean flour. Pronounced lǘ dǎ gǔn.

  • usurious loan with snowballing compound interest
  • traditional Beijing snack made of steamed yellow millet dough coated in soybean flour

Definitions & Examples

Jiù
shè
huì
 
duō
qióng
rén
yīn
wèi
jiè
le
gǔn
de
gāo
dài
ér
jiā
rén
wáng
 

In the old society, many poor people lost their families and lives because they borrowed usurious loans with snowballing interest.

Zhè
zhǒng
gǔn
de
suàn
tài
kēng
rén
le
 
jiè
bǎi
hěn
kuài
biàn
chéng
qiān
 

This kind of snowballing interest calculation is too exploitative; borrowing one hundred quickly becomes one thousand.