穷
qióng HSK4

poor

穷 窮 qióng
poor adjective
poor; impoverished; destitute

他既不穷也不富。

tā jì bù qióng yě bù fù.

He is neither poor nor rich.

to exhaust adjective
to use up; to exhaust; to pursue to the limit; to reach the end of something
thoroughly
thoroughly; exhaustively; to investigate something to its very roots
extremely
extremely; to the highest degree; to the limit
remotely
(bound form) remote; secluded; desolate
[stubbornly]
(colloquial) to do something persistently or pointlessly despite limited ability or common sense
hard-pressed
in a difficult situation; at a dead end; cornered (as in 穷寇 qióng​kòu or 穷途末路 qióng​tú​mò​lù)

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Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,343rd most common 91.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,731st most common 30.5 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.8 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
27.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
窮
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+7A77

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)