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一暴十寒

yī pù shí hán

4-character word

What 一暴十寒 means

1. variant of {一曝十寒|yī pù shí hán}

The characters in 一暴十寒

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 暴bàosudden; violent; cruel
• 十shíten; 10
• 寒háncold; poor; to tremble

Sounds the same

Read yī pù shí hán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 一曝十寒one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp…

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