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人是铁饭是钢

rén shì tiě fàn shì gāng

6-character word Traditional 人是鐵飯是鋼

What 人是铁饭是钢 means

  1. one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom)
  2. an empty sack cannot stand upright

The characters in 人是铁饭是钢

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