the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
trad. 民窮財盡
Also written 民窮財盡【mín qióng cái jìn】
Characters in this word
4民
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surname Min
- Pinyin
- Mín
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 23698 of 2500
穷
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poor, destitute, to use up, to exhaust, thoroughly, extremely, (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- Pinyin
- qióng
- Traditional
- 窮
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 9199 of 2500
财
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money, wealth, riches, property, valuables
- Pinyin
- cái
- Traditional
- 財
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 26346 of 2500
尽
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to the greatest extent, (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme, to be within the limits of, to give priority to
- Pinyin
- jǐn
- Traditional
- 儘
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2396 of 2500