They are not all poor.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
穷人
poor people
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
poor people
02
the poor
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 穷人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 穷人 appears in 25 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We must not laugh at the poor.
The rich and the poor are afraid of death.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 穷人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 穷人.
Directly before
- 是穷人7
- 帮助穷人4
- 喜欢穷人2
- 看不起穷人2
- 对穷人1
Directly after
- 穷人的4
- 穷人而言1
- 穷人都1
- 穷人们1
- 穷人无1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 穷人
What does 穷人 mean in Chinese?
穷人 (qióngrén) means poor people.
How do you pronounce 穷人?
穷人 is pronounced qióngrén.
Is 穷人 an HSK word?
穷人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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