If I win the lottery, I'll be able to live high on the hog.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
衣食无忧
not having to worry about clothes and food (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not having to worry about clothes and food (idiom)
02
to be provided with the basic necessities
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 衣食无忧 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 衣食无忧 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
If I could be reborn, I would want to be the child of a rich family, then I'd be set for life.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 衣食无忧.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 衣食无忧.
Directly before
- 一辈子衣食无忧2
Directly after
- 衣食无忧了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 衣食无忧
What does 衣食无忧 mean in Chinese?
衣食无忧 (yīshíwúyōu) means not having to worry about clothes and food (idiom).
How do you pronounce 衣食无忧?
衣食无忧 is pronounced yīshíwúyōu.
Is 衣食无忧 an HSK word?
衣食无忧 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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