家无儋石
jiā​wú​dàn​shí

to live from hand to mouth

  • created sense approved 家无儋石/家無儋石 · jiā​wú​dàn​shí · to live from hand to mouth — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    家无儋石 / 家無儋石

    jiā​wú​dàn​shí

    to live from hand to mouth

    (literary) to have no food in storage at home; describes extreme poverty and hardship

    家 (literal) → 家 · jiā · home 无 (literal) → 无/無 · wú · to not have 儋 (literal) → 儋 · dàn · [load] 石 (literal) → 石 · dàn · [unit of volume or weight]

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

    created sense