Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「陋巷簞瓢」, with details below.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「陋巷簞瓢」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Lu: simple, narrow; dan: a round bamboo container used for rice in ancient times. He lived in a shabby alley, ate from a basket and drank from a ladle. Describes an extremely poor life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lòu xiàng dān piáo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lau6 hong6/hong2 daan1 piu4
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