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吳市吹簫 (ng4 si5 ceoi1 siu1) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

吳市吹簫 (ng4 si5 ceoi1 siu1, wú shì chuī xiāo) — (idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 吳亮星 (ng4 loeng6 sing1) — Ng Leung-sing, name of politician
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• 吳卓羲 (ng4 coek3 hei1) — Ron Ng, name of an actor
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