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三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
What 三旬九食 means
- lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
- fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
- in dire straits
The characters in 三旬九食
- 三sānthree; 3
- 旬xún(bound form) ten-day period; one of the three ten-day divisions of a month…
- 九jiǔnine; 9
- 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
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