the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty; lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)
trad. 笑貧不笑娼
Also written 笑貧不笑娼【xiào pín bù xiào chāng】
Characters in this word
4笑
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old variant of 笑[xiao4]
- Pinyin
- xiào
- Traditional
- 咲
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 534 of 2500
贫
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poor, inadequate, deficient, garrulous
- Pinyin
- pín
- Traditional
- 貧
- Strokes
- 8
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
娼
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prostitute
- Pinyin
- chāng
- Strokes
- 11