穷

Pinyin: qióng

poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust

🏮 Chinese HSK 5 adjective

Example sentence

他确实很穷,但是他很幸福。

Tā quèshí hěn qióng, dànshì tā hěn xìngfú.

He is poor, to be sure, but he is happy.

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What 穷 means

穷 (qióng) is a Chinese word meaning “poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust”. It appears in the HSK 5 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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