An editorial reading of 反卷: resisting excessive competition.

How to read this entry#

Component interpretation only: 反 as opposing and 卷 in its slang hypercompetitive sense; no claim of an organized social movement.

An authored teaching example#

我们想反卷,不想过度竞争。

We want to resist excessive competition, not compete to an unhealthy degree.

This is an independently written practice sentence. It is not a real quotation, and its wording does not establish how common the expression is.

Evidence and scope#

The dictionary supports the listed lexical meanings. Where the full expression is an editorial interpretation, it is identified above. No survey, movement size, employer policy or current app-access rule is inferred from a vocabulary entry.

Lexical reference: CC-CEDICT contributors, distributed by MDBG, release dated 23 October 2026. Any adapted lexical data is provided under CC BY-SA 4.0. The teaching example and translation are newly written.

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