Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「飲水啜菽」 and its explanation.
The featured idiom 「飲水啜菽」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Eat bean soup when you are hungry and drink water when you are thirsty. Describes a hard life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐn shuǐ chuò shū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yam2 seui2 jyut3 suk6
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