Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「地瘠民貧」.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「地瘠民貧」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
The land is barren and the people are poor.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dì jí mín pín
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dei6/dei2 jek3 man4 pan4
Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.
