"Poor" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 cài dish (type of food) / vegetable / cuisine / CL:盤|盘[pan2],道[dao4] / (coll.) (one's) type / (of one's skills etc) weak / poor
 qióng poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
 qióng rén poor people / the poor
 pín qióng poor / impoverished
 pín jí barren / infertile / poor
 pín hán poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished
 pín kǔ poverty-stricken / poor
 chà shì poor / not up to standard
 xī sōng poor / sloppy / unconcerned / heedless / lax / unimportant / trivial / loose / porous
 qīng hán poor / underprivileged / (of weather) crisp and clear
 hán cold / poor / to tremble
 pín poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous
 fěi poor / humble / unworthy / radish (old)
 bì my (polite) / poor / ruined / shabby / worn out / defeated
 jù poor / rustic
 jù poor / rustic
 shòu qióng poor
 kòng kuì scarce / poor
 qióng bàng zi poor but spirited person / destitute / the poor (traditional)
 lā jī trash / refuse / garbage / (coll.) of poor quality / Taiwan pr. [le4 se4]
 è liè vile / nasty / of very poor quality
 fú pín assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation
 xū ruò weak / in poor health
 jiào chà mediocre / rather poor / not specially good
 tú yā graffiti / scrawl / poor calligraphy / to write badly / to scribble
 liè zhì shoddy / of poor quality
 pín fù poor and rich
 cháng kōng (literary) the vast sky / (finance) eventual downturn / poor prospects in the long term
 bèi guāng to be in a poor light / to do sth with one's back to the light / to stand in one's own light
 dī dàng low-grade / of low worth or rank / poor quality / inferior
 pín kùn dì qū poor region / impoverished area
 jiǒng pò poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed
 pín fù chā jù disparity between rich and poor
 pín dào poor Taoist
 dī sú vulgar / poor taste
 sú qì tacky / inelegant / in poor taste / vulgar / banal
 pín mín poor people
 qīng pín poor but upright / destitute
 jiàn xiào to mock / to be ridiculed / to incur ridicule through one's poor performance (humble)
 qióng guāng dàn poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond
 pín sēng poor monk (humble term used by monk of himself)
 pín jiàn poor and lowly
 chà píng poor evaluation / adverse criticism
 jiā tú sì bì lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
 dǎng shēn poor man's ginseng (Codonopsis pilosula) / codonopsis root (used in TCM)
 xū huǒ excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
 qīng kǔ destitute but honest / poor and simple / spartan / austere
 pín nóng poor peasant
 dǎo méi dàn (coll.) poor devil / unfortunate man
 fù nóng rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主[di4 zhu3] and poor peasant 貧農|贫农[pin2 nong2]
 hán mén poor and humble family / my family (humble)
 jì pín to help the poor
 qióng guó poor country
 pín xià zhōng nóng (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
 chái mén lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background
 chú bào ān liáng to root out the strong and give people peace (idiom) / to rob the rich and give to the poor
 kū qióng to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor
 pín ruò poor and feeble
 qiàn shōu crop failure / poor harvest
 chú qiáng fú ruò to root out the strong and support the weak (idiom) / to rob the rich and give to the poor
 wō gōng (of workers) to have no work to do / to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor organization by management etc)
 mào having poor eyesight
 jié fù jì pín to rob the rich to help the poor
 rén qióng zhì duǎn poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
 ān fù xù qióng to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
 ān fù xù pín to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
 jiā pín rú xǐ extreme poverty (idiom) / destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
 qiáng jiàng shǒu xià wú ruò bīng there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom)
 dǎ fù jì pín to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)
 fú ruò yì qiáng to support the weak and restrain the strong (idiom) / robbing the rich to help the poor
 qióng dāng yì jiān poor but ambitious (idiom) / hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back
 péng hù wèng yǒu thatched house, broken urn windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home
 péng mén bì hù overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home
 póu duō yì guǎ to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom)
 qīn shū guì jiàn close and distant, rich and poor (idiom) / everyone / all possible relations
 mǎi dú huán zhū to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
  urban poor
 bèn zuǐ zhuō shé clumsy in speech / poor speaker
 bó dì barren land / poor soil
穿 méi chī méi chuān to be without food or clothing (idiom) / to be very poor
 tú yā variant of 塗鴉|涂鸦[tu2 ya1] / graffiti / scrawl / poor calligraphy / to write badly / to scribble
穿 guāng jiǎo de bù pà chuān xié de lit. the barefooted people are not afraid of those who wear shoes (idiom) / fig. the poor, who have nothing to lose, do not fear those in power
 shēng dǒu xiǎo mín poor people (idiom) / those who live from hand to mouth
 shǒu zhuō to remain honest and poor
 wān yāo tuó bèi slouch / stoop / poor posture
 fú pín jì kùn to help the poor / almsgiving for the needy / to assist poor households or poor regions
 mò méi slack coal (final poor quality coal)
 chái mén xiǎo hù woodcutter's cottage (idiom) / poor person's hovel / fig. my humble house
 Biāo Pǔ Standard and Poor (share index) / abbr. for 標準普爾|标准普尔[Biao1 zhun3 Pu3 er3]
 cì pín extremely poor but not destitute
 shā fù jì pín robbing the rich to help the poor
 méi shuǐ píng disgraceful / poor quality / substandard
 Tāng Yù lín Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承德, mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth
 yǎn shén bù hǎo to have poor eyesight
 yǎn shén bù jì to have poor eyesight
 pò wǎ hán yáo lit. broken tiles, cold hearth / fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling
 Qín Tāo yù Qin Taoyu, Tang poet, author of poem "A Poor Woman" 貧女|贫女[Pin2 nu:3]
 qióng dāng yì jiān , lǎo dāng yì zhuàng poor but ambition, old but vigorous (idiom) / robust and determined to hold one's position despite poverty and old age
 huāng jí desolate and poor / infertile
 fēi zhuó the poor food I offer you (humble) / my inadequate hospitality
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