窮 (qióng)
poor; impoverished; exhausted
How 窮 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 穴 — cave
- Traditional
- 窮
- Simplified
- 穷
Components
- 穴 cave
- 身 body
- 弓 bow
Common words using 窮
- 貧窮 pínqióng
- poor; impoverished
- 其樂無窮 qílèwúqióng
- boundless joy
- 回味無窮 huíwèiwúqióng
- leaving a rich aftertaste; (fig.) memorable; lingering in memory
- 層出不窮 céngchūbùqióng
- more and more emerge; innumerable succession; breeding like flies (idiom)
- 山窮水盡 shānqióngshuǐjìn
- mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line; nowhere to go
- 無窮 wúqióng
- endless; boundless; inexhaustible
- 無窮無盡 wúqióngwújìn
- vast and limitless (idiom); endless span of time; no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end
- 窮人 qióngrén
- poor people; the poor
- 窮光蛋 qióngguāngdàn
- poor wretch; pauper; destitute man
- 窮困 qióngkùn
- destitute; wretched poverty
- 窮盡 qióngjìn
- end; bound; boundary
- 窮苦 qióngkǔ
- impoverished; destitute
窮 in a sentence
小時候家裡很窮，沒錢買玩具。
Xiǎoshíhòu jiālǐ hěn qióng, méiqián mǎi wánjù.
“My family was very poor when I was young; we had no money to buy toys.”
How common is 窮?
窮 is the 1,341st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.3% of all running text.
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