节衣缩食 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 節衣縮食 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. jiéyīsuōshí ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄧ ㄙㄨㄛ ㄕˊ to save on food and clothing (idiom) to live frugally Character by character 节(jié)joint 衣(yī)clothes 缩(suō)withdraw 食(shí)eat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT