餓莩遍野 è piǎo biàn yě

DEFINITIONS

  1. starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine

CHARACTERS

餓 è hungry; greedy for; hunger
莩 piǎo membrane lining inside of reed
遍 biàn
HSK 4
everywhere, all over, throughout
野 yě
HSK 6
open country, field; wilderness