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一毛不拔

yī máo bù bá

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

一毛不拔 (yī máo bù bá) means "stingy (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 一毛不拔 means

1. (lit.) unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom)
2. (fig.) extremely stingy

The characters in 一毛不拔

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 毛máohair; feather; down
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 拔báto pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction

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