讨生活
tǎo​shēng​huó

to eke out a living

  • created sense approved 讨生活/討生活 · tǎo​shēng​huó · to eke out a living — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    讨生活 / 討生活

    tǎo​shēng​huó

    to eke out a living

    to seek a livelihood or find a way to survive, often implying a difficult struggle to get by; to live from hand to mouth or drift through life

    讨, 生活

    讨 (literal) → 讨/討 · tǎo · to look for 生活 (literal) → 生活 · shēng​huó · livelihood

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

    created sense