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阮囊羞澀
  jyun5 nong4 sau1 saap3   jyutping
  ruan3 nang2 xiu1 se4   pinyin
in financial crisis; tight money wise; financial difficulties

(Lit.)When a man named (Yuen Fu) was asked what he had in his bag, he answered abashedly that he only had one coin.
Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
阮囊羞澀 / 阮囊羞涩

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Characters in this word:

 jyun2  -  a Chinese family name
 nong4  -  bag; pocket; put in a bag
 sau1  -  shameful; ashamed; shame
 gip3 sap1 saap3  -  astringent; unsmooth; hard to understand
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