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Today, we explore the idiom 「一無長物」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
Nothing: nothing at all; extra things: extra things. There is nothing extra except one’s body. Originally refers to a simple life. Now it is used to describe poverty.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī wú zhǎng wù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 mou4 cheung4/jeung2 mat6
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