lit. to eat in the open air and sleep outdoors (idiom); fig. to rough
风 · 4 strokes
Simplified form of 風. Originally written the same as 鳳 (phoenix) because the two characters sounded the same. Later the bottom part of the character was abbreviated to distinguish the two characters.
餐 · 16 strokes
Phonosemantic compound. 食 represents the meaning and 𣦼 represents the sound.
露 · 21 strokes
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 路 represents the sound.
宿 · 11 strokes
Depicts a person (亻) sleeping on a bamboo mat (㐁) under a roof (宀).
他们一路风餐露宿，终于在第7天到达了拉萨。
Enduring the hardships of travel all the way, eating in the wind and sleeping in the open, they finally reached Lhasa on the seventh day.