- crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty
- successive years; over many years
- wheat; CL:粒[li4]
- crop failure; poor harvest
- levies in kind; grain tax
- harvest
- 亢 Kàng: 亢 Kang4: surname Kang; Kang, one of the 28 constellations亢 kàng: 亢 kang4: high; overbearing; excessive
- sorghum; common sorghum (Sorghum vulgare)
- corn
- not a single grain was reaped (as in a bad harvest year)
- disastrous situation; calamity
- (idiom) to no avail; of no use
- grain chaff
- tree bark
- weeds; mistress or prostitute (old)
- to die; to lose one's life
- outskirts
- 啮 niè: 啮 nie4: to gnaw; to erode啮 niè: 啮 nie4: to gnaw啮 Niè: 啮 Nie4: surname Nie
- 教会 jiào hùi: 教会 jiao4 hui4: Christian church教会 jiāo hùi: 教会 jiao1 hui4: to show; to teach
- meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130
- high official
- to exempt; exemption
- to shake; to vibrate; to strongly affect; shock; vibration
- civil servant; public servant
- destitute; wretched poverty
- to have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
- to induce an abortion; induced abortion
- overseas Chinese; (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- children; sons and daughters
- to live one's life; to make a living
- disaster area; stricken region
- hungry; to starve (sb)
- membrane lining inside a cylindrical stem; culm
- beast; animal; beastly; bestial
- devastation; miserable condition
- one or two; a few; a little; just a bit
- to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail
- firmament
- to examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship
- in disguised form; covert
- Liberation Daily, newspaper published in Shanghai