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穷当益坚

qióng dāng yì jiān

4-character word Traditional 窮當益堅

What 穷当益坚 means

  1. poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined
  2. the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back

The characters in 穷当益坚

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