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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「橡茹藿歠」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Acorns are used as rice and bean leaves are used as soup. Generally refers to poor diet.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiàng rú huò chuò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeung6 yu4 fok3 jyut3
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