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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「三百甕齏」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Refers to living on pickles for a long time and leading a poor life. Pickles, pickles. Three hundred jars is an extreme way of saying that there are too many to be eaten in one go.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sān bǎi wèng jī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saam1 baak3 ung3 jai1
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