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糊口

hú kǒu

2-character word

What 糊口 means

1. to scrape a meager living
2. to get by with difficulty

Other readings

糊口 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• hú kǒuvariant of {糊口|hú kǒu}

The characters in 糊口

• 糊hūto smear; to daub; to cover (a surface with sth sticky or paste-like); Taiwan pr. hú
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…

Example sentences

• 我努力工作养家糊口。
  Wǒ nǔlì gōngzuò yǎngjiāhúkǒu.
  I worked hard in order to support my family.
• 他仅有够糊口的吃的。
  Tā jǐn yǒugòu húkǒu de chī de.
  He had barely enough to eat.
• 这些日子我们勉强糊口。
  Zhèxiē rìzi wǒmen miǎnqiǎng húkǒu.
  We lived from hand to mouth in those days.
• 她过去的生活仅够糊口。
  Tā guòqù de shēnghuó jǐn gòu húkǒu.
  She used to live hand to mouth.
• 那些无家可归的人每天过着仅够糊口的生活。
  Nàxiē wújiākěguī de rén měitiān guo zhe jǐn gòu húkǒu de shēnghuó.
  Those homeless people are living hand-to-mouth.
• 失业者渴望工作——任何有助于养家糊口的工作都可以。
  The jobless became desperate for work – any work that would help them to support their families.

Words containing 糊口

• 养家糊口yǎng jiā hú kǒu(idiom) to provide for one's family

Sounds the same

Read hú kǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

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