without two nickels to rub together (idiom); impoverished
trad. 赤貧如洗
Also written 赤貧如洗【chì pín rú xǐ】
Characters in this word
4赤
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red, scarlet, bare, naked
- Pinyin
- chì
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 20969 of 2500
贫
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poor, inadequate, deficient, garrulous
- Pinyin
- pín
- Traditional
- 貧
- Strokes
- 8
如
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as, as if, such as
- Pinyin
- rú
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1252 of 2500
洗
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to wash; to bathe, to develop (photographs), to shuffle (cards etc), to erase (a recording)
- Pinyin
- xǐ
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 1841 of 2500