民生凋敝
Traditional form:
民生凋敝
Pinyin (reading):
mínshēngdiāobì
Definitions:
- the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment
Characters:
- 民 - citizens, subjects; a nation's people
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 凋 - withered, fallen; exhausted
- 敝 - to break, to destroy; ruined, tattered
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