食荼卧棘(shí tú wò jí): to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom)
4 charactersTrad. 食荼臥棘
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom)
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Word information
- Pinyin
- shí tú wò jí
- Meaning
- to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
- HSK level
- —
- Characters
- 4
- Traditional
- 食荼臥棘
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 食荼卧棘 — tap one to open its word page.
zhǔ主shí食
HSK 7-9staple food
huǒ伙shí食
HSK 7-9food
fèi废qǐn寝wàng忘shí食
HSK 7-9(idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals; to be completely wrapped up in one's work
sān三xún旬jiǔ九shí食
lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
huǒ伙shí食fèi费
food expenses
piān偏shí食
partial to (some kinds of food, usu. unhealthy)
quán全shí食
total eclipse
fù副shí食pǐn品
non-staple foods
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