衣食父母 Save Sign in to save words yīshífùmǔ ㄧ ㄕˊ ㄈㄨˋ ㄇㄨˇ the people one depends upon for one's livelihood one's bread and butter Character by character 衣(yī)clothes 食(shí)eat 父(fù)father 母(mǔ)mother A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0