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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「褐衣不完」 and its explanation.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「褐衣不完」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Brown: coarse cloth clothes. Even coarse cloth clothes are not adequate for wearing. Describes a difficult life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hè yī bù wán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hot3 yi1 bat1 yun4

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