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喝西北风
hē​xī​běi​fēng

go hungry

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
喝西北风 (喝西北風) hē​xī​běi​fēng
go hungry
To go hungry or have nothing to eat; to be left without any means of support (literally "to drink the northwest wind").

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.418 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)