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食玉炊桂

shí yù chuī guì

Definition

  1. food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom)
  2. the cost of living is very high

Character Decomposition

食
=
亽
+
艮
玉
=
王
+
？
炊
=
火
+
欠
桂
=
木
+
圭

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