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聊生

liáo shēng

2-character word

What 聊生 means

1. to earn a living (esp. with negative)

The characters in 聊生

• 聊liáo(colloquial) to chat; (literary) temporarily; for a while; (literary) somewhat; slightly
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Words containing 聊生

• 民不聊生mín bù liáo shēng(idiom) the people have no way to make a living (from Records of the Grand Historian 史记

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