4 characters Idiom and proverb 21 811

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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「黃冠草服」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Poor clothing. Refers to the common people. Sometimes it refers to a noble and elegant person.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huáng guàn cǎo fú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wong4 gun3 chou2 fuk6

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