Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「弊衣簞食」, with more below.
Here’s the idiom 「弊衣簞食」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Worn-out clothes and poor food. Refers to a hard life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bì yī dān shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bai6 yi1 daan1 sik6
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