挨饿受冻

挨餓受凍
ái'è-shòudòng
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 to suffer hunger and cold
  2. 2 to live in deprivation
  3. 3 to endure starvation and freezing

Examples

HSK 5
Wǒ juébù ràng háizi men ái'èshòudòng.
I won't let my children go hungry and cold.
HSK 6
Tā xiǎoshíhòu jiālǐ pínkùn, jīngcháng ái'èshòudòng.
When he was little his family was poor, and he often went hungry and cold.
HSK 7-9
Xǔduō nànmín zhìjīn réng zài hándōng zhōng ái'èshòudòng.
Many refugees still endure hunger and cold every winter.

Tips

usage
The here is read ái (second tone) - the 'to endure, suffer' reading - not āi ('close to'). Pairs naturally with ('to undergo'): 挨饿 (suffer hunger) + 受冻 (suffer cold) = a balanced four-character compound.
mistakes
Mind the apostrophe in pinyin: ái'èshòudòng. Without it, the syllable break between ái and è would be ambiguous (since è starts with a vowel, the apostrophe is required by Hanyu Pinyin orthography).

Stroke Order

āi
饿 è
shòu
dòng