"Miserly" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 小气 | xiǎo qì | stingy / miserly / narrow-minded / petty |   |
| 吝啬 | lìn sè | stingy / mean / miserly | |
| 咸 |  xián | salted / salty / stingy / miserly | |
| 悭吝 | qiān lìn | (literary) miserly / stingy | |
| 抠 | kōu | to dig out / to pick out (with one's fingers) / to carve / to cut / to study meticulously / to lift one's clothes / stingy / miserly | |
| 善财难舍 | shàn cái nán shě | to cherish wealth and find it hard to give up (idiom) / refusing to contribute to charity / skinflint / miserly | |
| 鄙吝 | bǐ lìn | vulgar / stingy / miserly / mean | |
| 孤寒 | gū hán | alone and poor / humble / (Cantonese) miserly | |
| 鸡贼 | jī zéi | (dialect) stingy / miserly / crafty / cunning | |
| 吝惜 | lìn xī | to stint / to be miserly | |
