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吃皇粮
chī huáng liáng
What 吃皇粮 means
- lit. to eat from government coffers
- to serve as a government employee
- to live off government money
The characters in 吃皇粮
- 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
- 皇huángemperor; old variant of 惶
- 粮liánggrain; food; provisions
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