衣单食薄 — Chinese idiom
衣单食薄
yī dān shí bó
Traditional: 衣單食薄
Meaning
- thin coat, meager food ; life of wretched poverty
- destitute
Character by character
- 衣yīcloth; clothes, apparel; dress, coat
- 单dānsingle, individual, only; lone
- 食shífood; to eat
- 薄bóthin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
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
- 衣不蔽体 yī bù bì tǐ
- 衣冠禽兽 yī guān qín shòu
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