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饿殍

è piǎo

2-character word Traditional 餓殍

What 饿殍 means

1. starving people

The characters in 饿殍

• 饿èhungry; to starve (sb)
• 殍piǎo(literary) to die of starvation

Words starting with 饿殍

• 饿殍载道è piǎo zài dàostarved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine

Sounds the same

Read è piǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 饿莩variant of 饿殍

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