From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「饔飧不飽」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「饔飧不飽」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
饔: breakfast. Dinner: dinner. Never full all day. Describes a very poor life. Also written as “no food to continue” and “no food to provide”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yōng sūn bù bǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yung1 syun1 bat1 baau2
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