Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「惡衣惡食」.
Today, we explore the idiom 「惡衣惡食」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
Evil: crude. Refers to poor clothing and food.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
è yī è shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ok3 yi1 ok3 sik6
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