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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「貧賤糟糠」 and its explanation.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「貧賤糟糠」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Refers to the wife who shares the hardships with you during times of poverty and hardship.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pín jiàn zāo kāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pan4 jin6 jou1 hong1

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