賣妻鬻子
mài​qī​yù​zǐ

to sell one's family

  • created sense approved 卖妻鬻子/賣妻鬻子 · mài​qī​yù​zǐ · to sell one's family — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    卖妻鬻子 / 賣妻鬻子

    mài​qī​yù​zǐ

    to sell one's family

    to sell one's wife and children to survive a famine or disaster; used to describe a state of extreme poverty and desperation

    卖 (literal) → 卖/賣 · mài · to sell 妻 (literal) → 妻 · qī · wife 鬻 (literal) → 鬻 · yù · to sell 子 (literal) → 子 · zǐ · son

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

    created sense