啼饥号寒 — Chinese idiom
啼饥号寒
tí jī háo hán
Traditional: 啼饑號寒
Meaning
- to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty
Character by character
- 啼títo weep, to whimper; to howl; to crow
- 饥jīhungry, starving; hunger, famine
- 号háomark, sign; symbol; number; to call, to cry, to ro
- 寒hánchilly, cold; poor; to shiver, to tremble
Idioms sharing a character
- 啼笑皆非 tí xiào jiē fēi
- 杜鹃啼血 dù juān tí xuè
- 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
- 饥寒交迫 jī hán jiāo pò
- 饥肠辘辘 jī cháng lù lù
- 发号施令 fā hào shī lìng
- 不寒而栗 bù hán ér lì
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