饿莩遍野
Traditional form:
餓莩遍野
Pinyin (reading):
èpiǎobiànyě
Definitions:
- starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine
Characters:
- 饿 - hungry; greedy
- 莩 - culm, stem; the membrane lining a stem
- 遍 - everywhere, all over, throughout
- 野 - field, open country; wilderness
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