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HSK
4

poor

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

qiong2 qióng

Meaning


Primary

poor

Alternatives

impoverished

Mnemonic


[qi-] Kirby is [2] inside the [-ong] temple where he is trying to join the monks because he is too 穷 poor to do anything else. He hands over his possessions to the monks who are next to the altar and gongs at the front of the room as part of his initiation. He barfs them up from inside his stomach: a walking dollhouse and a 力 muscular arm. His only possessions! The monks laugh at how 穷 poor Kirby is before accepting him as a new monk.

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