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Idioms like 「床頭金盡」 are key to mastering Chinese. Start from characters, climb to idioms, and explore them with this free resource.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「床頭金盡」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

The money at the bedside is gone. It is a metaphor for running out of money and becoming difficult in life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chuáng tóu jīn jìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chong4 tau4 gam1 jeun6

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