bare livelihood; subsistence
Refers to barely making a living, often used in set phrases like 糊口をしのぐ (eke out a living).
He ekes out a living with day labor.
In those days, many writers did translations to make a bare living.
Standard kanji form.
Rarely used kanji form.
糊 (paste, sustenance) + 口 (mouth, livelihood). The kanji 糊 originally refers to rice paste, metaphorically extended to mean sustenance or livelihood.