zāo
kāng

common
noun

Meaning of 糟糠

糟糠 means distillers' grains and rice bran; coarse food eaten by the poor in old times. Pronounced zāo kāng.

  • distillers' grains and rice bran; coarse food eaten by the poor in old times

Definitions & Examples

nìng
chī
zāo
kāng
 
yào
ràng
hái
zi
chī
bǎo
 

He would rather eat coarse food himself than let his children go hungry.

Zāo
kāng
zhī
xià
táng
 
zhè
shì
rén
de
dào
guān
niàn
 

A wife who shared hardships should not be cast aside—this was the moral value of the ancients.

men
guò
le
chī
zāo
kāng
de
jiān
suì
yuè
 

They endured the hard years of eating coarse food together.