省吃俭用

省吃儉用
shěngchījiǎnyòng
to live frugally

CEDICT

to save money on food and daily expenses; to be thrifty

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 省 shěng
  1. to save; to economize; to be frugal
  2. to omit; to delete; to leave out
  3. province
  4. provincial capital
  5. a ministry (of the Japanese government)
=2 吃 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=2 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
3 俭用 jiǎnyòng to economize; to be frugal

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自奉俭约 zìfèngjiǎnyuē (idiom) to live frugally