家贫如洗
jiā​pín​rú​xǐ

penniless

  • created reference approved 家贫如洗/家貧如洗 → 一贫如洗/一貧如洗 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    家贫如洗 / 家貧如洗 jiā​pín​rú​xǐ

    一贫如洗 / 一貧如洗 yī​pín​rú​xǐ

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 家贫如洗/家貧如洗 · jiā​pín​rú​xǐ · penniless — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    家贫如洗 / 家貧如洗

    jiā​pín​rú​xǐ

    penniless

    extremely poor; to be in extreme poverty, as if the house had been washed clean of all possessions

    家 (literal) → 家 · jiā · home 贫 (literal) → 贫/貧 · pín · poor 如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 洗 (literal) → 洗 · xǐ · to wash

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

    created sense