shengnan means A man who has for an extended amount of time been unable to find a romantic, interpersonal or physically intimate relationship. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
noun
- A man who has for an extended amount of time been unable to find a romantic, interpersonal or physically intimate relationship.“The marriage candidates on offer in the parks, she discovered, were often a mismatch of shengnu ("leftover women") and shengnan ("leftover men"), two groups from opposite ends of the social scale.”