衣不蔽体 — Chinese idiom
衣不蔽体
yī bù bì tǐ
Traditional: 衣不蔽體
Meaning
- lit. clothes not covering the body
- fig. poverty-stricken
Character by character
- 衣yīcloth; clothes, apparel; dress, coat
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 蔽bìto cover, to hide, to shelter
- 体tǐbody; group, class; form, style, system
Idioms sharing a character
- 天衣无缝 tiān yī wú fèng
- 宵衣旰食 xiāo yī gàn shí
- 牛衣对泣 niú yī duì qì
- 白衣苍狗 bái yī cāng gǒu
- 相体裁衣 xiàng tǐ cái yī
- 节衣缩食 jié yī suō shí
- 缩衣节食 suō yī jié shí
- 腰金衣紫 yāo jīn yī zǐ
- 衣冠禽兽 yī guān qín shòu
- 衣单食薄 yī dān shí bó
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