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人贫志短
rén​pín​zhì​duǎn

poverty stunts ambition

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
人贫志短 人貧志短 rén​pín​zhì​duǎn
poverty stunts ambition
poverty makes one lose heart and lack high aspirations; (variant form) when a person is poor, their willpower and ambition are weakened

Frequency

Written text
0.002 per million

Cross-References

Has variant

  • 人穷志短 rén​qióng​zhì​duǎn

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)