民生凋敝

mín shēng diāo bì

Meaning

the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment

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民míncitizens, subjects; a nation's people巳戈生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth一土凋diāowithered, fallen; exhausted冫周敝bìto break, to destroy; ruined, tattered攵