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Open the tool →野有饿莩 (yě yǒu è piǎo) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “Starving people or corpses are found in the fields”.
野有饿莩 is pronounced yě yǒu è piǎo in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 野有饿莩 means “in the wilds, there are starving corpses”. It is used to mean “Starving people or corpses are found in the fields”.
饿莩:饿死的人。郊外有饿死的人。形容战乱或灾后的景象