zāo​kāng

poor food

糟糠 zāo​kāng
poor food
Distillers' dregs, grain husks, and chaff; refers to coarse food eaten by the poor.
worthless person or thing
Something useless or discarded like rubbish; junk.
wife in poverty
A wife who shares a husband's hardships during times of poverty; short for 糟糠妻 zāo​kāng​qī or 糟糠之妻 zāo​kāng​zhī​qī

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