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Today’s idiom is 「衣單食薄」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.
The clothes were thin and the food was very little. Describes a difficult life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī dān shí báo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi1 daan1 sik6 bok6
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