zāo​kāng​zhī​qī

wife shared in hardship

  1. poor food
    Distillers' dregs, grain husks, and chaff; refers to coarse food eaten by the poor.
  2. zhī particle
    [possessive]
    Connects a describing word or phrase to the noun it describes, similar to de but used in formal or literary writing.
  3. noun
    wife
    (bound form) wife; a man's legal spouse; appears in words like 妻子 qī​zi and 夫妻 fū​qī