Word data
HSK
Not in HSK
FREQUENCY
Unknown
笑貧不笑娼 xiào pín bù xiào chāng
despise the poor, not the immoral rich
Word data
| HSK | Not in HSK |
| Frequency | Unknown |
Definitions
- 1. the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty
- 2. lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)