餓が莩ひょう

noun

starvation; bodies of the starved

Archaic literary term for death by starvation or the corpses of those who starved. Not used in modern everyday Japanese.

• 古こ文ぶん書しょには、飢き饉きんで餓が莩ひょうが道みちに満みちたと記しるされている。

  Ancient documents record that during the famine, the roads were filled with the bodies of the starved.