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拮据

jié jū

2-character word

What 拮据 means

1. hard pressed for money; in financial straits

The characters in 拮据

• 拮jiéantagonistic; laboring hard; pressed
• 据jùaccording to; to act in accordance with; to depend on

Example sentences

• 他的书销路不好，所以现在手头十分拮据。
  Tā de shū xiāolù bù hǎo, suǒyǐ xiànzài shǒutóu shífēn jiéjū.
  He is badly off, because his book doesn't sell well.

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