饥寒交迫 — Chinese idiom
饥寒交迫
jī hán jiāo pò
Traditional: 飢寒交迫
Meaning
- beset by hunger and cold
- starving and freezing
- in desperate poverty
Character by character
- 饥jīhungry, starving; hunger, famine
- 寒hánchilly, cold; poor; to shiver, to tremble
- 交jiāoto connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect;
- 迫pòto compel, to force; pressing, urgent
Idioms sharing a character
- 啼饥号寒 tí jī háo hán
- 如饥似渴 rú jī sì kě
- 漏脯充饥 lòu fǔ chōng jī
- 画饼充饥 huà bǐng chōng jī
- 饥不择食 jī bù zé shí
- 饥肠辘辘 jī cháng lù lù
- 不寒而栗 bù hán ér lì
- 乍暖还寒 zhà nuǎn huán hán
- 唇亡齿寒 chún wáng chǐ hán
- 问寒问暖 wèn hán wèn nuǎn
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