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凋敝

diāo bì

2-character word

What 凋敝 means

1. impoverished
2. destitute
3. hard
4. depressed (of business)
5. tattered
6. ragged

The characters in 凋敝

• 凋diāowithered
• 敝bìmy (polite); poor; ruined

Words containing 凋敝

• 民生凋敝mín shēng diāo bìthe people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom)…

Sounds the same

Read diāo bì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 雕弊variant of 凋敝
• 雕敝variant of 凋敝

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