糟糠

糟糠 in English

zāo kāng
chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻[zao1 kang1 qi1]) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband

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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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