Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「褐衣蔬食」 for your learning.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「褐衣蔬食」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Brown clothes: coarse cloth clothes; vegetable food: rough food. They wore coarse clothes and ate simple meals. Describes a difficult life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hè yī shū shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hot3 yi1 so1 sik6
There are countless Chinese idioms, all rich in meaning and application. Each one is unique, and we hope this information helps you explore and enhance your Chinese language knowledge.
