{"path":"/entry/117926","title":"饥馑荐臻 / 饑饉薦臻 (jī jǐn jiàn zhēn) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"饥馑荐臻 / 饑饉薦臻 (jī jǐn jiàn zhēn): famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":117926,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["饥馑荐臻"],"TRADITIONAL":["饑饉薦臻"]}},"phonetic":"jī jǐn jiàn zhēn","phoneticKey":"ji1 jin3 jian4 zhen1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"famine repeats unceasingly ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom, from Book of Songs)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Classic of Poetry, poem 258 《雲漢》","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"天降丧乱，饥馑荐臻。","traditional":"天降喪亂，饑饉薦臻。"},"phonetic":"Tiān jiàng sāngluàn, jījǐn jiànzhēn.","english":"That Heaven [thus] sends down death and disorder?\nFamine comes again and again.","ref":"The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}