喝西北风 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 喝西北風 hēxīběifēng ㄏㄜ ㄒㄧ ㄅㄟˇ ㄈㄥ 男 女 to drink the northwest wind (idiom) lit. to go hungry to have nothing to eat fig. Character by character 喝(hē)drink 西(xī)west 北(běi)north 风(fēng)wind Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0