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饭糗茹草

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4-character word Traditional 飯糗茹草

What 饭糗茹草 means

1. (lit.) to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom)
2. (fig.) to live in abject poverty

The characters in 饭糗茹草

• 饭fàncooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan
• 糗qiǔdry rations (for a journey); (dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush…
• 茹rúto eat; (extended meaning) to endure; putrid smell
• 草cǎograss; straw; manuscript