糊口

to scrape a meager living / to get by with difficulty

variant of 糊口[hu2 kou3]

variant of 糊[hu2]

muddled / paste / scorched

paste / cream

congee / making a living

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

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