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饿殍载道

è piǎo zài dào

4-character word Traditional 餓殍載道

What 饿殍载道 means

1. starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine

The characters in 饿殍载道

• 饿èhungry; to starve (sb)
• 殍piǎo(literary) to die of starvation
• 载zǎito record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. zài
• 道dàoroad; path; (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art…

Sounds the same

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

• 饿莩载道starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine