糟糠

chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻[zao1 kang1 qi1]) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband

Characters and words in 糟糠

糟

za̅o = z + ao1

dregs / draff / pickled in wine / rotten / messy / ruined

糟 = 曹 + 米 : Zorro (z) found a very rotten, dead (糟) herring (曹) in a sack of rice (米) and now the rice is a total waste (糟). He gets rid of the rice and the herring in front of the aorta (ao1).

糠

穅

ka̅ng = k + ang1

variant of 糠[kang1]

糠

粇

ka̅ng = k + ang1

old variant of 糠[kang1]

糠

ka̅ng = k + ang1

husk / (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)