寄人篱下
Traditional form:
寄人籬下
Pinyin (reading):
jìrénlíxià
Definitions:
- to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
Characters:
- 寄 - to mail, to send, to transit; to deposit, to entrust; to rely on
- 人 - man, person; people
- 篱 - bamboo fence; fence, hedge
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
Traditional characters: