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贫民窟

pín mín kū

3-character word Traditional 貧民窟

What 贫民窟 means

1. slum housing

The characters in 贫民窟

• 贫pínpoor; inadequate; deficient
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country
• 窟kūcave; hole

Example sentences

• 汤姆住在贫民窟里。
  Tāngmǔ zhù zài pínmínkū lǐ.
  Tom lives in a slum.
• 墨西哥有很多贫民窟。
  There are many slums in Mexico.
• 在墨西哥有很多贫民窟。
  Zài Mòxīgē yǒu hěn duō pínmínkū.
  There are many shantytowns in Mexico.
• 你如果看过贫穷国家的贫民窟，就会觉得自己其实没那么穷。那些贫民窟的居民也是人。
  If you ever saw the slums in the poor countries, you would feel that you're really not so poor. Those slum dwellers are human, too.