Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「飯蔬飲水」, explained here.
This feature highlights the idiom 「飯蔬飲水」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Describes a life of simple desires, and contentment with poverty.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fàn shū yǐn shuǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
faan6 so1 yam2 seui2
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