Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「不名一文」, with more below.
The idiom 「不名一文」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
Name: Possession. Not a penny. Describes extreme poverty.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù míng yī wén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 ming4/meng2 yat1 man4
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