lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom) · fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation · in dire straits

sān xún jiǔ shí

s+ān·1st tonex+ǘn·2nd tonej+iǔ·3rd tonesh+í·2nd tone

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