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穷

qióng

HSK 4 Character Traditional 窮

What 穷 means

1. poor
2. destitute
3. to use up
4. to exhaust
5. thoroughly
6. extremely
7. colloquialpersistently and pointlessly

Example sentences

• 他很穷。
  He is poor.
• 我很穷。
  I'm poor.
• 穷鼠啮狸。
  Qióng shǔ niè lí.
  A cornered rat will bite a cat.
• 他们都不穷。
  Tāmen dōu bù qióng.
  All of them are not poor.
• 穷人无亲戚。
  The poor man has no relatives.
• 开车其乐无穷。
  Kāichē qílèwúqióng.
  It is a lot of fun to drive a car.

Words starting with 穷

• 穷人qióng rénpoor people; the poor
• 穷困qióng kùndestitute; wretched poverty
• 穷苦qióng kǔimpoverished; destitute
• 穷光蛋qióng guāng dànpoor wretch; pauper; destitute man
• 穷尽qióng jìnto use up; to exhaust; to probe to the bottom
• 穷凶极恶qióng xiōng jí èfiendish; black-hearted
• 穷追不舍qióng zhuī bù shěto pursue relentlessly
• 穷乡僻壤qióng xiāng pì rǎnga remote and desolate place
• 穷国qióng guópoor country
• 穷途末路qióng tú mò lùlit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse…
• 穷极qióng jíextremely; utterly
• 穷追qióng zhuīto pursue relentlessly
• 穷游qióng yóuto travel on a small budget
• 穷养qióng yǎngto raise (a child) frugally
• 穷则思变qióng zé sī biàn(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
• 穷家富路qióng jiā fù lù(idiom) at home be frugal, but when traveling be prepared to spend
• 穷山恶水qióng shān è shuǐlit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom); fig. inhospitable natural environment
• 穷于应付qióng yú yìng fùto struggle to cope (with a situation); to be at one's wits' end
• 穷当益坚qióng dāng yì jiānpoor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined…
• 穷思苦想qióng sī kǔ xiǎngto think hard (idiom); to give sth much thought
• 穷忙族qióng máng zúthe working poor
• 穷棒子qióng bàng zipoor but spirited person; (old) (derog.) peasant
• 穷鬼qióng guǐ(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
• 穷酸qióng suān(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic; impoverished pedant

Words containing 穷

• 层出不穷céng chū bù qióngmore and more emerge; innumerable succession; breeding like flies (idiom)
• 无穷无尽wú qióng wú jìn(idiom) endless; boundless; infinite
• 贫穷pín qióngpoor; impoverished
• 无穷wú qióngendless; boundless; inexhaustible
• 回味无穷huí wèi wú qióngto have a rich aftertaste; (fig.) memorable; to linger in one's memory
• 其乐无穷qí lè wú qióngboundless joy
• 山穷水尽shān qióng shuǐ jìnmountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line; nowhere to go
• 不穷bù qióngendless; boundless; inexhaustible
• 受穷shòu qióngpoor
• 固穷gù qióngto endure poverty stoically
• 有穷yǒu qióngexhaustible; limited; finite
• 词穷cí qióngto not know what to say; to be lost for words
• 正无穷zhèng wú qióng(math) positive infinity
• 无穷大wú qióng dà(math) infinity; infinite
• 无穷小wú qióng xiǎo(math) infinitesimal; infinitely small
• 无穷集wú qióng jíinfinite set (math.)
• 负无穷fù wú qióng(math) negative infinity
• 人穷志短rén qióng zhì duǎnpoor and with low expectations; poverty stunts ambition
• 其乐不穷qí lè bù qióngboundless joy
• 力大无穷lì dà wú qióngextraordinary strength; super strong; strong as an ox
• 民穷财尽mín qióng cái jìnthe people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom)…
• 无穷序列wú qióng xù lièinfinite sequence
• 无穷远点wú qióng yuǎn diǎnpoint at infinity (math.); infinitely distant point
• 遗害无穷yí hài wú qióngto have disastrous consequences; also written 贻害无穷

Characters that look like 穷

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 空kōngempty; air; sky
• 努nǔto exert; to strive
• 劳láo(bound form) to toil; labor; (bound form) laborer; (bound form) meritorious deed
• 宗zōngschool; sect; purpose
• 茔yíng(literary) a grave
• 肓huāngregion between heart and diaphragm

Sounds the same

Read qióng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 琼jasper; fine jade; beautiful
• 穹vault; dome; the sky
• 瞏(literary) to gaze in terror; (literary) alone; unaided
• 跫sound of footsteps
• 邛mound; place name
• 蛩anxious; grasshopper; a cricket
• 茕alone; desolate
• 筇(in ancient texts) type of bamboo sometimes used as a staff
• 䓖used in 芎䓖
• 璚(red stone)
• 笻variant of 筇
• 惸variant of 茕