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

Connects a describing word or phrase to the noun it describes, similar to 的 de but used in formal or literary writing.

(bound form) wife; a man's legal spouse; appears in words like 妻子 qī​zi and 夫妻 fū​qī

Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings

(literary) for a wife to be abandoned or divorced by her husband; used in the idiom 糟糠之妻不下堂 zāo​kāng​zhī​qī​bù​xià​táng