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吴市吹箫

wú shì chuī xiāo

4-character word Traditional 吳市吹簫

What 吴市吹箫 means

1. idiomto beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's {伍子胥|Wǔ Zǐ xū} exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" {史记|Shǐ jì})

The characters in 吴市吹箫

• 吴Wúsurname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai…
• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)
• 吹chuīto blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast
• 箫xiāoxiao, a vertical bamboo flute

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