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荜门圭窦

bì mén guī dòu

4-character word Traditional 蓽門圭竇

What 荜门圭窦 means

1. wicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel
2. living in poverty

The characters in 荜门圭窦

• 荜bìbean; pulse
• 门méngate; door; doorway; gateway; opening; valve; switch…
• 圭guījade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility…
• 窦dòu(literary) hole; aperture; (anatomy) cavity; sinus

Sounds the same

Read bì mén guī dòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 筚门闺窦wicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel; living in poverty