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穷

qióng

poor

Simplified form of 窮. Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 躬 represents the sound.

Components
穴 meaning component

穴  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

力 simplified component

力  Simplified component

lì

  

power

Shorthand for the 躬 component in the traditional character 窮.

Evolution

穷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
穷 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
穷 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
穷 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

穷 (窮) 

qióng

poor, destitute, impoverished; poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

Most common words with 穷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

穷

poor

穷人

poor people

贫穷

poor

无穷

endless

层出不穷

more and more emerge

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 15.2491% of movies

1730th most common character in movies

1343rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

窮

Unicode

U+7A77


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