| 饿殍载道 |
è piǎo zài dào |
starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine |
| 饿 |
è |
hungry / to starve (sb) |
| 饿殍 |
è piǎo |
starving people |
| 殍 |
piǎo |
(literary) to die of starvation |
| 载 |
zǎi |
to record in writing / to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc) / Taiwan pr. [zai4] / year |
| 载 |
zài |
to carry / to convey / to load / to hold / to fill up / and / also / as well as / simultaneously |
| 载道 |
zài dào |
to fill the road (also fig. clamor, cries of complaint) / to communicate a moral / to convey the Way / to express (idea, preference, complaint) |
| 道 |
dào |
road; path (CL:条,股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) |