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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「養家糊口」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It means to barely feed the family and keep them from going hungry.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǎng jiā hú kǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yeung5 ga1 wu4 hau2
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