寄人篱下 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 寄人籬下 jìrénlíxià ㄐㄧˋ ㄖㄣˊ ㄌㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋ to lodge under another person's roof (idiom) to live relying on sb else's charity Character by character 寄(jì)entrust 人(rén)person 篱(lí)a fence 下(xià)down A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0