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节衣缩食
jié​yī​suō​shí HSK7

economize

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
节衣缩食 (節衣縮食) jié​yī​suō​shí
economize idiom
To save on food and clothing; to live frugally.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.386 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Referenced by

  • 紧衣缩食 jǐn​yī​suō​shí

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)