拮据 jiéjū short of money Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents jiéjū short of money 拮 jié (bound form) short of money in financial difficulty; short of money据 據 jū [straitened] (bound form) to be short of money, used only in the compound 拮据 jiéjūjiéjū to toil 拮 jié (bound form) hard at work (bound form) used to describe working hard or struggling with a task据 據 jū [straitened] (bound form) to be short of money, used only in the compound 拮据 jiéjū