预制××yù zhì …

Pre-made X

yòu shì yù zhì péng you quān.又是预制朋友圈。Another pre-made post.

预制×× means “pre-made X”. It starts from 预制菜, restaurant dishes made in a factory and only heated up in the kitchen. You put another noun after 预制 for anything that feels mass-produced: a photo, a post, a life.

Took off: 2025
Started in: Talk about pre-made restaurant food
Today: Current

What it means

预制 means “made in advance”. 预制菜 are ready meals: cooked in a central kitchen, packed, and heated up when you order.

The meme puts other nouns after 预制. 咬文嚼字 gives two: 预制人, people turned out in batches by school and work, “like meal kits”, and 预制内容, videos, web novels and shows made to a hit formula. Other common ones are 预制朋友圈, a WeChat post that looks like everyone else’s, and 预制人生, a life that follows a set plan.

How people use it

It is current, and it is almost always a complaint. You use it for things that feel made by a formula: travel photos in the same pose at the same spot, or posts with the same caption.

In normal Chinese 预制 still means “prefabricated”, as in 预制板, a precast concrete slab.

琦琦

你看我新发的照片了吗？
nǐ kàn wǒ xīn fā de zhào piàn le ma?
Did you see the photos I just posted?
看了，怎么跟网上的一模一样
kàn le, zěn me gēn wǎng shang de yì mú yí yàng
I did. Why do they look exactly like the ones online?
同一个地方，同一个姿势，拍了五十张
tóng yí gè dì fang, tóng yí gè zī shì, pāi le wǔ shí zhāng
Same spot, same pose. I took fifty.
哈哈，预制出片
hā hā, yù zhì chū piàn
Ha, pre-made photos.
没办法，好看就行
méi bàn fǎ, hǎo kàn jiù xíng
Can’t help it. As long as they look good.

More examples

朋友圈里全是预制旅游照，一个姿势一个角度。
péng you quān lǐ quán shì yù zhì lǚ yóu zhào, yí gè zī shì yí gè jiǎo dù.
My feed is all pre-made travel photos: one pose, one angle.
每天上班下班，感觉自己在过预制人生。
měi tiān shàng bān xià bān, gǎn jué zì jǐ zài guò yù zhì rén shēng.
Work, home, repeat. I feel like I’m living a pre-made life.

Where it came from

The word comes from food. 咬文嚼字 links its spread to a series of public debates in 2025 about pre-made dishes, which began with a well-known restaurant chain.

On December 2, 2025, the magazine put 预制×× on its list of the ten popular phrases of the year. A commentary in the Hunan paper Xinhunan read it as a complaint about standard, mass-made consumer life.