食荼卧棘 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 食荼臥棘 shítúwòjí ㄕˊ ㄊㄨˊ ㄨㄛˋ ㄐㄧˊ to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom) to share the hard life of the common people Character by character 食(shí)eat 荼(tú)thistle 卧(wò)lie 棘(jí)thorns A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0