食荼臥棘 shí tú wò jí

to share hardships with the people

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people

Characters

Character Meaning
to eat; food; animal feed
bitter (taste); cruel; thistle
to lie; to crouch
thorns