guò​bu​xià

to be unable to live on

  1. to spend
    to spend or pass time; to live one's life; to celebrate a holiday or festival
  2. bu particle
    [potential]
    Used between a verb and its result to show that the action cannot achieve that result; used as the negative form of the de potential construction
  3. xia particle
    [capacity]
    used after a verb with de or to indicate having or lacking the capacity to contain something