开门七件事

開門七件事
kāimén qī jiàn shì
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 the seven daily necessities of a household
  2. 2 everyday household expenses

Examples

HSK 6
Kāimén qī jiàn shì, yàngyàng dōu yào huāqián.
Every one of the seven daily necessities costs money.
HSK 7-9
Jiéhūn yǐhòu, tā cái míngbai cāochí kāimén qī jiàn shì yǒu duō bù róngyi.
Only after she married did she realize how hard it is to keep a household supplied with its daily needs.

Tips

culture
The seven are 柴米油盐酱醋茶: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. Song and Yuan writers already list them, and tea's place among the basics shows how ordinary tea-drinking had become.

Stroke Order

开 kāi
门 mén
七 qī
件 jiàn
事 shì