"Poverty-stricken" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 窘迫 | jiǒng pò | poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed |   |
| 贫寒 | pín hán | poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished | |
| 贫苦 | pín kǔ | poverty-stricken / poor | |
| 寒酸 | hán suān | wretched / poverty-stricken / unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc) | |
| 困顿 | kùn dùn | fatigued / exhausted / poverty-stricken / in straitened circumstances | |
| 赤贫 | chì pín | poverty-stricken | |
| 倥偬 | kǒng zǒng | pressing / urgent / poverty-stricken / destitute | |
| 贫穷潦倒 | pín qióng liáo dǎo | destitute / poverty-stricken | |
| 穷光蛋 | qióng guāng dàn | poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond | |
| 食不果腹 | shí bù guǒ fù | lit. food not filling the stomach (idiom) / fig. poverty-stricken | |
| 衣不蔽体 | yī bù bì tǐ | lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom) / fig. poverty-stricken | |
