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糟糠妻

zāo kāng wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
zāo dregs / draff / pickled in wine / rotten / messy / ruined
zāo kāng chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
  kāng variant of
  kāng old variant of
  kāng husk / (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)
   (bound form) wife
   to marry off (a daughter)
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