Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「飲水棲衡」 for your learning.
Here, we present the idiom 「飲水棲衡」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Drink water to fill your stomach and live in simple houses. Describes a hard life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐn shuǐ qī héng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yam2 seui2 chai1 hang4
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