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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「賣富差貧」 for your learning.

The Chinese idiom we are introducing this time is 「賣富差貧」. You can find its meaning and application outlined below.

It means that the rich can be exempted from labor service if they pay money, while the poor can be arbitrarily forced to do labor.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mài fù chà pín

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

maai6 fu3 cha1 pan4

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