饿莩遍野 — Chinese idiom
饿莩遍野
è piǎo biàn yě
Traditional: 餓莩遍野
Meaning
- starving people everywhere ; a state of famine
Character by character
- 饿èhungry; greedy
- 莩piǎoculm, stem; the membrane lining a stem
- 遍biàneverywhere, all over, throughout
- 野yěfield, open country; wilderness
Idioms sharing a character
- 挨饿受冻 ái è shòu dòng
- 饿殍载道 è piǎo zài dào
- 饿莩载道 è piǎo zài dào
- 哀鸿遍野 āi hóng biàn yě
- 尸横遍野 shī héng biàn yě
- 漫天遍地 màn tiān biàn dì
- 漫山遍野 màn shān biàn yě
- 烽烟遍地 fēng yān biàn dì
- 遍地开花 biàn dì kāi huā
- 遍体鳞伤 biàn tǐ lín shāng
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