别无长物
bié​wú​cháng​wù

to have no extra possessions

  • created sense approved 别无长物/別無長物 · bié​wú​cháng​wù · to have no extra possessions — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    别无长物 / 別無長物

    bié​wú​cháng​wù

    to have no extra possessions

    To possess nothing except the bare necessities; used to describe living a very poor or simple and frugal life.

    bié​wú​zhàng​wù

    别无 (literal) → 别无/別無 · bié​wú · to have no other 长物 (literal) → 长物/長物 · cháng​wù · superfluous things

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense