CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

贫苦

pínkǔ

poverty-stricken

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

poverty-stricken

poor

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 贫苦 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 贫苦 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

於是那欢快的小男孩们四处游荡，/ 如此喜悦地穿越山丘与山谷，/ 蔷薇的芬芳穿过荆棘丛 / 将随温柔的夏风飘散：/ 每个清晨，大自然含笑赐予，/ 那贫苦卑微的农夫也得一份，/ 云雀从草丛中振翅而上，/ 将悠扬的音符送向天际。yú shì nà huān kuài de xiǎo nán hái men sì chù yóu dàng，/ rú cǐ xǐ yuè dì chuān yuè shān qiū yǔ shān gǔ，/ qiáng wēi de fēn fāng chuān guò jīng jí cóng / jiāng suí wēn róu de xià fēng piāo sàn：/ měi gè qīng chén， dà zì rán hán xiào cì yǔ，/ nà pín kǔ bēi wēi de nóng fū yě dé yī fèn，/ yún què cóng cǎo cóng zhōng zhèn chì ér shàng，/ jiāng yōu yáng de yīn fú sòng xiàng tiān jì。

Then the merry little boys they will ramble, / So gleesome, o’er mountain and dale, / Where the sweets of the rose through the bramble / Will be blown by the mild summer gale: / Then a share of Nature’s smiles each morning / To the poor humble peasant will be given. / While the lark from his covert he is soaring, / His musical notes to the heaven.

贫苦的人，煮汤没有盐，烧饭没有柴火，夜里没有灯火，冬天的夜里没有被子。pín kǔ de rén， zhǔ tāng méi yǒu yán， shāo fàn méi yǒu chái huǒ， yè lǐ méi yǒu dēng huǒ， dōng tiān de yè lǐ méi yǒu bèi zi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 贫苦.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 贫苦.

Directly before

那贫苦1

Directly after

贫苦的1
贫苦卑微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 贫苦

What does 贫苦 mean in Chinese?

贫苦 (pínkǔ) means poverty-stricken.

How do you pronounce 贫苦?

贫苦 is pronounced pínkǔ.

Is 贫苦 an HSK word?

贫苦 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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