食荼卧棘
shí​tú​wò​jí

to share hardship with the people

  • created sense approved 食荼卧棘/食荼臥棘 · shí​tú​wò​jí · to share hardship with the people — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    食荼卧棘 / 食荼臥棘

    shí​tú​wò​jí

    to share hardship with the people

    to eat bitter herbs and lie on thorns; an idiom used to describe sharing the same difficult and hard life as the common people

    食 (literal) → 食 · shí · to eat 荼 (literal) → 荼 · tú · bitter vegetable 卧 (literal) → 卧/臥 · wò · to lie down 棘 (literal) → 棘 · jí · thorns

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