Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「乞窮儉相」, with details below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「乞窮儉相」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Looking shabby like a beggar.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qǐ qióng jiǎn xiàng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hat1 kung4 gim6 seung2
Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.
