饥寒交迫
Traditional form:
飢寒交迫
Pinyin (reading):
jīhánjiāopò
Definitions:
- beset by hunger and cold (idiom)
- starving and freezing
- in desperate poverty
Characters:
- 饥 - hungry, starving; hunger, famine
- 寒 - chilly, cold; poor; to shiver, to tremble
- 交 - to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix
- 迫 - to compel, to force; pressing, urgent
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