jié​jū

short of money

  • created sense approved 拮据 · jié​jū · to toil — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    拮据

    jié​jū

    to toil

    (literary) to labor hard; to be busy working with one's hands

    拮 (literal) → 拮 · jié · (bound form) hard at work 据 (literal) → 据/據 · jū · [straitened]

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

    created sense

  • created sense approved 拮据/拮據 · jié​jū · short of money — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    拮据 / 拮據

    jié​jū

    short of money

    short of money; hard up; in straitened circumstances

    拮据

    拮 (literal) → 拮 · jié · (bound form) short of money 据 (literal) → 据/據 · jū · [straitened]

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

    created sense