寄人篱下 jìrénlíxià to live under another's roof Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 寄人篱下 寄人籬下 jìrénlíxià to live under another's roof To live in someone else's house and depend on their charity or support to be unoriginal To lack originality in writing or art by following another's style or borrowing another's ideas. Frequency Written text 0.508 per million Cross-References Same as 依人篱下 yīrénlíxià Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
寄人篱下 寄人籬下 jìrénlíxià to live under another's roof To live in someone else's house and depend on their charity or support to be unoriginal To lack originality in writing or art by following another's style or borrowing another's ideas. Frequency Written text 0.508 per million Cross-References Same as 依人篱下 yīrénlíxià Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
