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贫乏

pín fá

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 貧乏

贫乏 (pín fá) means "impoverished; lacking; deficient". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 贫乏 means

1. impoverished
2. lacking
3. deficient
4. limited
5. meager
6. impoverishment
7. lack
8. deficiency

The characters in 贫乏

• 贫pínpoor; inadequate; deficient
• 乏fáshort of; tired

Example sentences

• 日本自然资源贫乏。
  Rìběn zìránzīyuán pínfá.
  Japan is poor in natural resources.

Where 贫乏 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · pīn–pǐn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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