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喝西北风

hē xī běi fēng

4-character word Traditional 喝西北風

What 喝西北风 means

1. (lit.) to drink the northwest wind (idiom)
2. (fig.) to go hungry; to have nothing to eat

The characters in 喝西北风

• 喝hēto drink; variant of 嗬
• 西xīwest
• 北běinorth; (classical) to be defeated
• 风fēngwind; news; style

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