(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic; impoverished pedant
trad. 窮酸
Also written 窮酸【qióng suān】
Characters in this word
2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
酸
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sour, tart, sick at heart, grieved, sore, aching, pedantic, impractical, to make sarcastic remarks about sb, an acid
- Pinyin
- suān
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 10275 of 2500