Definify.com

Definition 2024


易子而食

易子而食

Chinese

{| style="clear: right;margin: 1em;border-collapse: collapse;text-align: center"

|- ! !change; easy; simple

!

 
child; son; (noun suff.); small thing; midnight; 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch

!

 
and; as well as; but (not); yet (not); (shows causal relation); (shows change of state); (shows contrast)

!

 
eat; food; to feed; animal feed

|- !simp. and trad.
(易子而食) | | | | |}

Idiom

易子而食

  1. the situation is dire (i.e. during wartime or famine)

References

  • “BOOK VII. DUKE XUAN”, in Chunqiu Zuo zhuan (in English), accessed 2011-02-27
  • Lu Xun (1918) A Madman's Diary