poor and with low expectations; poverty stunts ambition
trad. 人窮志短
Also written 人窮志短【rén qióng zhì duǎn】
Characters in this word
4人
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person; people, CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- Pinyin
- rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 30 of 2500
穷
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
poor, destitute, to use up, to exhaust, thoroughly, extremely, (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- Pinyin
- qióng
- Traditional
- 窮
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 9199 of 2500
志
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aspiration, ambition, the will
- Pinyin
- zhì
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 28262 of 2500
短
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short, brief, to lack, weak point, fault
- Pinyin
- duǎn
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 3410 of 2500