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斤 – Jin1 – Pound
She forgot why, but for some reason Judy looked up the expression 斤斤計較 – Jin1 Jin1 Ji4 Jiao4 – Pound Pound Haggle on her favorite new toy, an electronic pocket Chinese/English dictionary. It translated it to English as “Calculative”. Asking her and Jenny about it, they said it means “somebody who haggles over every pound”, or somebody who is very picky and makes sure they always get the good end of the deal. Searching for this expression led me to this site, which has a huge long awesome list of all these Chinese four word expressions. It translates that expresssion as “be particular about every point”.
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Interesting blog. I like your word a day idea. Any way someone could pin-yin translate the four word expressions? Forgot how to pronounce some characters…Thanks!