He had barely enough to eat.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
糊口
to scrape a meager living
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to scrape a meager living
02
to get by with difficulty
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 糊口 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 糊口 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We lived from hand to mouth in those days.
She used to live hand to mouth.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 糊口.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 糊口.
Directly before
- 仅够糊口2
- 勉强糊口2
- 有够糊口1
Directly after
- 糊口的3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 糊口
What does 糊口 mean in Chinese?
糊口 (húkǒu) means to scrape a meager living.
How do you pronounce 糊口?
糊口 is pronounced húkǒu.
Is 糊口 an HSK word?
糊口 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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