beset by hunger and cold (idiom); starving and freezing; in desperate poverty
trad. 飢寒交迫
Also written 飢寒交迫【jī hán jiāo pò】
Characters in this word
4饥
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(bound form) hungry
- Pinyin
- jī
- Traditional
- 飢
- Strokes
- 5
寒
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cold, poor, to tremble
- Pinyin
- hán
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 37456 of 2500
交
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to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over, to make friends, (of lines) to intersect, variant of 跤[jiao1]
- Pinyin
- jiāo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 3030 of 2500
迫
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variant of 迫[po4], to persecute, to oppress, embarrassed
- Pinyin
- pò
- Traditional
- 廹
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 30410 of 2500