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  *菜* | 菜* | *菜
vegetable; greens (CL:) / dish (of food) (CL:樣|样,,盤|盘) / (of one's skills etc) weak; poor / (coll.) (one's) type
HSK 1
trash / refuse / garbage / (coll.) of poor quality / Taiwan pr. [le4 se4]
HSK 4
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  *窮* | 窮* | *窮
poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
HSK 4
poor people / the poor
HSK 4
shoddy; of poor quality
HSK 7-9
a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic
poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed
HSK 7-9
poor and rich
HSK 7-9
low-grade / of low worth or rank / poor quality / inferior
poor evaluation / adverse criticism
(idiom) to rob the rich to help the poor
poor / impoverished
HSK 7-9
vulgar / poor taste
poverty-stricken / poor
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寒* | 寒* | *寒
cold / poor / to tremble
(coll.) poor devil / unfortunate man
Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index
vile / nasty / of very poor quality
HSK 7-9
weak / in poor health
HSK 7-9
poor-quality; inferior
assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation
nonstandard / incorrect / (of one's speech) poor; woeful (not in keeping with correct pronunciation or usage)
meager; poor
meager skill / my poor talents (humble)
poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
Standard and Poor (share index) / abbr. for 標準普爾|标准普尔
disparity between rich and poor
disgraceful / poor quality / substandard
Kong Yiji, protagonist of a short story of the same name by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅 depicting the life of a poor, unsuccessful scholar who clings to his Confucian ideals despite his dismal circumstances
the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *菲* | 菲* | *菲
poor / humble / unworthy / radish (old)
poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond
poor peasant
(idiom) to have a bad experience as a customer / to encounter poor service
poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished
help the starving but not the poor (idiom)
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
destitute but honest / poor and simple / spartan / austere
help to the needy / emergency relief / charity / to give to poorer relative / (also 賙濟|赒济)
poor and humble family / my family (humble)
poor / not up to standard
clumsy in speech / poor speaker
(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
grumpiness resulting from poor sleep; irritability in the morning
to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)
poor in oil
(idiom) poor people; those who live from hand to mouth
poor Taoist
to support the weak and restrain the strong (idiom); robbing the rich to help the poor
poor person's house / humble home
(calque of "tittytainment") low-brow entertainment that distracts the poor from their circumstances; mindless entertainment
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
poor man's ginseng (Codonopsis pilosula) / codonopsis root (used in TCM)
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  *貧* | 貧* | *貧
poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous
there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
Qin Taoyu, Tang poet, author of the poem "A Poor Woman" 貧女|贫女
graffiti / scrawl / poor calligraphy / to write badly / to scribble
to mock / to be ridiculed / to incur ridicule through one's poor performance (humble)
tacky / inelegant / in poor taste / vulgar / banal
alone and poor / humble / (Cantonese) miserly
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
to be without food or clothing (idiom) / to be very poor
(of workers) to have no work to do / to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor organization by management etc)
thatched house / poor person's house / humble home
mediocre / rather poor / not specially good
poor country
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
robbing the rich to help the poor
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *眊* | 眊* | *眊
having poor eyesight
poor region / impoverished area
(literary) the vast sky / (finance) eventual downturn / poor prospects in the long term
to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor
(idiom) poor but with great ambitions; poor but principled
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *窶* | 窶* | *窶
poor / rustic
(coll.) extremely poor (in quality); shockingly bad
rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主 and poor peasant 貧農|贫农
to show poor taste
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挼* | 挼* | *挼
(dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled; crumpled / (dialect) (of clothes) worn out / (dialect) (of a fire's intensity, one's physical condition etc) weak; feeble / (dialect) (of skill) poor; inferior
slack coal (final poor quality coal)
woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel / fig. my humble house
disaster year; (esp.) year of poor harvest
lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom); poor person's house / humble home
poor
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寠* | 寠* | *寠
poor / rustic
lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background
crop failure / poor harvest
desolate and poor / infertile
(literary) coarse clothing; sackcloth (worn by the poor in former times)
barren field / poor land
to be ill; to be in poor health
(humble) the poor food I offer you; my inadequate hospitality
poor and lowly
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
to have poor eyesight
poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back

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