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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「貧賤驕人」 for your learning.

Learn about the idiom 「貧賤驕人」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Living in poverty, but proud. It refers to the poor and humble people who despise the powerful and wealthy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pín jiàn jiāo rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pan4 jin6 giu1 yan4

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