food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom); the cost of living is very high
Characters in this word
4食
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to eat, food, animal feed, eclipse
- Pinyin
- shí
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 9712 of 2500
玉
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
jade
- Pinyin
- yù
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 12826 of 2500
炊
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to cook food
- Pinyin
- chuī
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 20646 of 2500
桂
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
surname Gui, abbr. for Guangxi Autonomous Region 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区[Guang3 xi1 Zhuang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]
- Pinyin
- Guì
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 47482 of 2500