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食荼卧棘
shí tú wò jí
What 食荼卧棘 means
- to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
The characters in 食荼卧棘
- 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
- 荼túthistle; common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus); bitter (taste)
- 卧wòto lie; to crouch
- 棘jíthorns
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