糊口

to scrape a meager living / to get by with difficulty

variant of 糊口[hu2 kou3]

Characters and words in 糊口

hú = hu + Ø2

variant of 糊[hu2]

糊 = 米 + 胡 : In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Helga Horse (hu) is cooking a paste (糊) made of a whole sack of rice (米). She made a big mess, partly because the instructions were so unclear (糊) and therefore she was so muddled up (糊). She even had her Confucius moustache (胡) catch the oven's fire, so her moustache got scorched (糊), just as the rice paste.

hú = hu + Ø2

muddled / paste / scorched

糊 = 米 + 胡 : In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Helga Horse (hu) is cooking a paste (糊) made of a whole sack of rice (米). She made a big mess, partly because the instructions were so unclear (糊) and therefore she was so muddled up (糊). She even had her Confucius moustache (胡) catch the oven's fire, so her moustache got scorched (糊), just as the rice paste.

hù = hu + Ø4

paste / cream

hú = hu + Ø2

congee / making a living

糊 = 米 + 胡 : In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Helga Horse (hu) is cooking a paste (糊) made of a whole sack of rice (米). She made a big mess, partly because the instructions were so unclear (糊) and therefore she was so muddled up (糊). She even had her Confucius moustache (胡) catch the oven's fire, so her moustache got scorched (糊), just as the rice paste.

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Words with 糊口

to support one's family (idiom); to have difficulty feeding a family

Sentences with 糊口

糊口 currently does not appear in any sentence.