食荼卧棘
Traditional form:
食荼臥棘
Pinyin (reading):
shítúwòjí
Definitions:
- to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
Characters:
- 食 - food; to eat
- 荼 - a bitter vegetable
- 卧 - to crouch; to lie down
- 棘 - jujube tree; thorns, brambles
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