咬菜根
yǎo​cài​gēn

to lead a hard life

  • created sense approved 咬菜根 · yǎo​cài​gēn · to lead a hard life — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    咬菜根

    yǎo​cài​gēn

    to lead a hard life

    (literary) to lead a poor or simple life; literally meaning "to bite vegetable roots" or "to chew vegetable stalks"

    咬, 菜根

    咬 (literal) → 咬 · yǎo · to bite 菜根 (literal) → 菜根 · cài​gēn · simple food

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense