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 | |
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 |