Word information
Simplified吴市吹箫
Traditional吳市吹簫
Pinyinwú shì chuī xiāo
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Chinese word dictionary
吴市吹箫
wú shì chuī xiāo · (idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])
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