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餓殍載道 (ngo6 piu5 zoi3 dou6) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

餓殍載道 (ngo6 piu5 zoi3 dou6, è piǎo zài dào) — starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine

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Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 餓死老婆燻臭屋 (ngo6 sei2 lou5 po4 fan1 cau3 uk1) — a man who isn't capable of raising his families
• 餓狗搶屎 (ngo6 gau2 coeng2 si2) — people scrambling for things (slang)
• 餓狼 (ngo6 long4) — literally: 'a hungry wolf', describes someone who is rapacious; avaricious
• 餓過飢 (ngo6 gwo3 gei1) — too hungry
• 餓 (ngo6) — hunger; to be hungry; to be greedy for
• 餓鬼投胎 (ngo6 gwai2 tau4 toi1) — eating with no manners, large mouthfuls and too quickly (slang)

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