室如縣罄
shì​rú​xuán​qìng

dirt poor

  • created sense approved 室如县罄/室如縣罄 · shì​rú​xuán​qìng · dirt poor — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    室如县罄 / 室如縣罄

    shì​rú​xuán​qìng

    dirt poor

    to be extremely poor; literally having a house as empty as a hanging percussion stone

    室 (literal) → 室 · shì · room 如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 县 (literal) → 县/縣 · xuán · to hang 罄 (literal) → 罄 · qìng · to exhaust

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense