







to make ends meet
to get by
to scrape by
to live from hand to mouth
I can just scrape by on what my parents give me.
He has to get by on unemployment compensation.

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Open the tool →勉强度日 (mián qiǎng dù rì) means “to make ends meet, to get by, to scrape by, to live from hand to mouth”.
勉强度日 is pronounced mián qiǎng dù rì in Mandarin Chinese.
“to make ends meet” is 勉强度日 (mián qiǎng dù rì) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 勉强度日, each with pinyin and an English translation.