to economize on clothes and food; to scrimp and save (idiom)
trad. 縮衣節食
Also written 縮衣節食【suō yī jié shí】
Characters in this word
4缩
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to withdraw, to pull back, to contract, to shrink, to reduce, abbreviation, also pr. [su4]
- Pinyin
- suō
- Traditional
- 縮
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 37781 of 2500
衣
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clothes, CL:件[jian4], Kangxi radical 145
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 12783 of 2500
节
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see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
- Pinyin
- jiē
- Traditional
- 節
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 5872 of 2500
食
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to eat, food, animal feed, eclipse
- Pinyin
- shí
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 9712 of 2500