穷山恶水
qióng​shān'è​shuǐ

inhospitable land

  • created sense approved 穷山恶水/窮山惡水 · qióng​shān'è​shuǐ · inhospitable land — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    穷山恶水 / 窮山惡水

    qióng​shān'è​shuǐ

    inhospitable land

    barren mountains and dangerous rivers; used to describe a place with an extremely harsh natural environment and poor living conditions

    穷 (literal) → 穷/窮 · qióng · remotely 山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain 恶水 (literal) → 恶水/惡水 · è​shuǐ · slop

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

    created sense