Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「貧無置錐」 here, with meaning and examples.
The idiom 「貧無置錐」 we’re featuring is explained below, showcasing its meaning and usage.
They were so poor that there wasn’t even a place small enough to stick an awl. Same as “poor and destitute”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pín wú zhì zhuī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pan4 mou4 ji3 jeui1
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