贫
poor; inadequate; deficient; garrulous
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,071 U+8D2B
How 贫 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Money 贝 that must be split 分; 分 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
impoverished · Heisig RSH #695
分 part + shells
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 贫
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 地中海贫血 | Dì zhōng Hǎi pín xuè | thalassemia (medicine) |
| 海洋性贫血 | hǎi yáng xìng pín xuè | thalassemia |
| 安贫乐道 | ān pín lè dào | to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom) |
| 失血性贫血 | shī xuè xìng pín xuè | blood loss anemia |
| 贫病交加 | pín bìng jiāo jiā | poverty compounded by ill health (idiom) |
| 贫民区 | pín mín qū | slum area; ghetto |
| 再生不良性贫血 | zài shēng bù liáng xìng pín xuè | aplastic anemia |
| 贫油国 | pín yóu guó | country poor in oil |
| 贫下中农 | pín xià zhōng nóng | (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, bef… |
| 一贫如洗 | yī pín rú xǐ | (idiom) penniless; destitute |
| 家贫如洗 | jiā pín rú xǐ | extreme poverty (idiom); destitute; penniless; poor as church mice |
| 贫血性坏死 | pín xuè xìng huài sǐ | anemic necrosis |
| 贫无立锥之地 | pín wú lì zhuī zhī dì | not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute |
| 贫血症 | pín xuè zhèng | anemia |
| 脑贫血 | nǎo pín xuè | cerebral anemia |
| 贫气 | pín qì | mean; stingy; garrulous |
| 贫道 | pín dào | (humble) I (used by Taoists) |
| 打富济贫 | dǎ fù jì pín | to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom) |
| 贫相 | pín xiàng | mean; stingy |
| 贫民 | pín mín | poor people |