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xiōng vicious / fierce / ominous / inauspicious / famine / variant of 兇|凶[xiong1]
饥饿 è hunger / starvation / famine
饥荒 huāng crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty
逃荒 táo huāng to escape from a famine / to get away from a famine-stricken region
大跃进 yuè jìn Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies
粮荒 liáng huāng famine / critical shortage of grain
荒年 huāng nián year of famine
灾荒 zāi huāng natural disaster / famine
离乱 luàn social upheaval caused by war or famine etc
凶年 xiōng nián year of famine
乐施会 shī huì Oxfam (Oxford Committee for Famine Relief)
jǐn time of famine or crop failure
民生凋敝 mín shēng diāo the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment
赈捐 zhèn juān money donation to relieve distress or famine
丧荒 sāng huāng funerals and famines
凶荒 xiōng huāng (literary) famine
积谷防饥 fáng storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥
撑死胆大的,饿死胆小的 chēng dǎn de , è dǎn xiǎo de fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)
吃大户 chī to plunder the homes of the wealthy for food (in times of famine) / (of sb who has no income) to rely on others / to demand a "contribution" or "loan" from a business or wealthy individual
荒旱 huāng hàn drought and famine
饿殍载道 è piǎo zài dào starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine
饿莩载道 è piǎo zài dào starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine
饿莩遍野 è piǎo biàn starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine
饥馑荐臻 jǐn jiàn zhēn famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)


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