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  *穷* | 穷* | *穷
poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
HSK 4
poor people / the poor
HSK 4
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
HSK 7-9
poor / impoverished
HSK 7-9
more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)
HSK 7-9
mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line / nowhere to go
fiendish / black-hearted
to have a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable; to linger in one's memory
to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)
destitute / wretched poverty
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose
to use up / to exhaust / to probe to the bottom / limit / end
impoverished / destitute
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom) / fig. inhospitable natural environment
to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor
a remote and desolate place
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse / in a plight with no way out / things have reached a dead end
endless / boundless / infinite
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant
boundless joy
to travel on a small budget
cornered enemy
to pursue relentlessly
poor
poor country
lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政 by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲 in 227 BC) (idiom) / fig. malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent
to pursue relentlessly
lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom) / fig. unable to provide a convincing argument to support one's position / to not have a leg to stand on
(idiom) it will cause no end of trouble
(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
destitute / troubled / penniless and full of care
(idiom) at home be frugal, but when traveling be prepared to spend
extravagant in the extreme (idiom)
the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom); extreme extravagance
to have disastrous consequences
extremely; utterly
to exhaust / to use up
sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline / at a dead end
to not know what to say; to be lost for words
to raise (a child) frugally
to sew and mend clothes for a pittance
poor but spirited person / (old) (derog.) peasant
to take refuge with a rich relative
exhausted and hungry
poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back
hard-up / in dire straits / desperate
variant of 瓊結|琼结, Qonggyai county, Tibetan: 'Phyongs rgyas, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区, Tibet
to shake uncontrollably / to jiggle (one's leg etc)
help the starving but not the poor (idiom)
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
(idiom) poor but with great ambitions; poor but principled
poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
boundless joy
extraordinary strength / super strong / strong as an ox
to endure poverty stoically
the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
Song Renqiong (1909-2005), general of the People's Liberation Army
(idiom) if you beat the snake without killing it, endless evils will ensue
exhaustible / limited / finite
infinitesimal (in calculus) / infinitely small
infinite sequence
point at infinity (math.) / infinitely distant point
infinite set (math.)
(Internet slang) (of a man) unmarriageable (lit. short, ugly and poor) / opposite: 高富帥|高富帅
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代
poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond
to be short of sth / to be wanting in sth
the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute
the working poor
to think hard (idiom) / to give sth much thought
impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless
to struggle to cope (with a situation) / to be at one's wits' end
Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)
variant of 瓊結縣|琼结县, Qonggyai county, Tibetan: 'Phyongs rgyas rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区, Tibet
wretched look / shabby looks
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
destitute; poverty-stricken
to have disastrous consequences / also written 貽害無窮|贻害无穷


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