地瘠人稀 dìjírénxī barren land and few people Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 地 dì noun earth The earth; the ground; land; soil; fields瘠 jí barren (bound form) barren or unproductive soil; not fertile人 rén noun manpower manpower; personnel; talent; hand稀 xī adjective sparse sparse; scattered; spread out with large intervals in space or time