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省吃俭用
shěng​chī​jiǎn​yòng

to live frugally

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
省吃俭用 省吃儉用 shěng​chī​jiǎn​yòng
to live frugally
to be very careful with money for food and daily expenses; to live a simple and thrifty life

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.14 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)