poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined; the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back
trad. 窮當益堅
Also written 窮當益堅【qióng dāng yì jiān】
Characters in this word
4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
当
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(onom.) dong, ding dong (bell)
- Pinyin
- dāng
- Traditional
- 噹
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 145 of 2500
益
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surname Yi
- Pinyin
- Yì
- Strokes
- 10
坚
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strong, solid, firm, unyielding, resolute
- Pinyin
- jiān
- Traditional
- 堅
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 40423 of 2500