民 民
不 不
聊 聊
生 生
- The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])
- no way of getting by
Info
- Wiktionary: 民不聊生
- MDBG: 民不聊生
- Examples with 民不聊生 on Tatoeba
- Percentile: 2 (higher is more common)
- Tags: chengyu