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笑贫不笑娼
xiào​pín​bù​xiào​chāng

despising poverty but not prostitution

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
笑贫不笑娼 笑貧不笑娼 xiào​pín​bù​xiào​chāng
despising poverty but not prostitution
A social attitude suggesting that it is better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's morals than to suffer in poverty.

Frequency

Written text
0.092 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)