"Impoverished" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 贫困 | pín kùn | impoverished / poverty |   |
| 贫乏 | pín fá | impoverished / lacking / deficient / limited / meager / impoverishment / lack / deficiency | |
| 贫穷 | pín qióng | poor / impoverished | |
| 沦落 | lún luò | to degenerate / impoverished / to fall (into poverty) / to be reduced (to begging) | |
| 贫寒 | pín hán | poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished | |
| 穷苦 | qióng kǔ | impoverished / destitute | |
| 凋敝 | diāo bì | impoverished / destitute / hard / depressed (of business) / tattered / ragged | |
| 一穷二白 | yī qióng èr bái | impoverished / backward both economically and culturally | |
| 赤贫如洗 | chì pín rú xǐ | without two nickels to rub together (idiom) / impoverished | |
| 窘匮 | jiǒng kuì | destitute / impoverished | |
| 破产 | pò chǎn | to go bankrupt / to become impoverished / bankruptcy | |
| 贫困地区 | pín kùn dì qū | poor region / impoverished area | |
| 穷酸 | qióng suān | (of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant | |
| 孤苦伶仃 | gū kǔ líng dīng | solitary and impoverished (idiom) | |
| 民穷财尽 | mín qióng cái jìn | the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom) / to drive the nation to bankruptcy | |
| 穷愁潦倒 | qióng chóu liáo dǎo | impoverished and dejected / wretched and penniless | |
| 聚萤映雪 | jù yíng yìng xuě | lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom) / fig. ambitious student from impoverished background / burning the midnight oil | |
| 寒士 | hán shì | (old) impoverished scholar | |
| 穷鬼 | qióng guǐ | (vulgar) impoverished person / the poor | |
