啼饥号寒 (啼饑號寒)
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 Pinyin
Definition
啼饥号寒 (啼饑號寒)
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              - hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty
Character Decomposition
Idioms (18)
一暴十寒
  - 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 short attention span
一曝十寒
  - 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 lack of sticking power
- 4 short attention span
冰冻三尺,非一日之寒
  - 1 three feet of ice does not form in a single day (idiom); Rome wasn't built in a day
唇亡齿寒
  - 1 lit. without the lips, the teeth feel the cold (idiom); fig. intimately interdependent
啼笑皆非
  - 1 lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom)
- 2 between laughter and tears