穷
Pinyin: qióng
poor
Example sentence
他小时候家里很穷。
Tā xiǎoshíhou jiā lǐ hěn qióng.
His family was poor when he was young.
What 穷 means
穷 (qióng) is a Chinese word meaning “poor”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.