created sense approved 并日而食/併日而食 · bìngrì'érshí · to be half-starved — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
并日而食 / 併日而食
bìngrì'érshí
to be half-starved
to eat only one day's worth of food over two days; to be poverty-stricken or live in extreme poverty
并 (literal) → 并/併 · bìng · to combine 日 (literal) → 日 · rì · [measure word] 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · to eat
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition
created sense approved 并日而食/併日而食 · bìngrì'érshí · to be too busy to eat — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
并日而食 / 併日而食
bìngrì'érshí
to be too busy to eat
to be so occupied with official duties that one has no time to eat
并 (literal) → 并/併 · bìng · to combine 日 (literal) → 日 · rì · [measure word] 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · to eat
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition