窮
qióng HSK4

poor

穷 (窮) qióng
poor adjective
lacking money or resources; destitute

他家里很穷，供不起他上学。

tā jiā​lǐ hěn qióng, gōng bù​qǐ tā shàng​xué.

His family is very poor and cannot afford to send him to school.

exhaust idiom
to use up; to reach the limit or end of something

科学的奥秘是无穷无尽的。

kē​xué de ào​mì shì wú qióng wú​jìn de.

The mysteries of science are infinite.

pointlessly adjective
(colloquial) to do something persistently and without purpose

你别再这样穷折腾了。

nǐ bié zài zhè​yàng qióng zhē​teng le.

Stop wasting your energy on these pointless things.

thoroughly idiom
to the limit; extremely or exhaustively

警方对那名逃犯穷追不舍。

jǐng​fāng duì nà míng táo​fàn qióng zhuī bù​shě.

The police pursued the fugitive relentlessly.

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
Simplified
穷
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+7AAE

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