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巧妇难为无米之炊

qiǎo fù nán wéi wú mǐ zhī chuī

8-character word Traditional 巧婦難為無米之炊

What 巧妇难为无米之炊 means

1. The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.

The characters in 巧妇难为无米之炊

• 巧qiǎoopportunely; coincidentally; as it happens
• 妇fùwoman
• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 为wéias (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 米mǐuncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 炊chuīto cook food

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