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ng4 si5 ceoi1 siu1
Pinyin
wú shì chuī xiāo
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
to beg while playing the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ)
cf Wu Zixu 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1], destitute refugee from Chu 楚[Chu3], busked in Wu town c. 520 BC, then became a powerful politician