Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- qióng
English
- poor, destitute, impoverished
- poor
- to exhaust; to use up; to devote entirely
- poor; in poverty
- destitute
- to use up
- to exhaust
- thoroughly
- extremely
- (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
粵語
- 費盡、用完、竭盡
- 缺乏錢或財物
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 窮
- 貧窮pan4 kung4
poor
- 窮鬼kung4 gwai2
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
- 無窮mou4 kung4
endless
- 詞窮ci4 kung4
to not know what to say; to be lost for words
- 窮困kung4 kwan3
destitute
- 窮盡kung4 zeon6
to use up
- 窮酸kung4 syun1
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic
- 受窮sau6 kung4
poor
- 哭窮huk1 kung4
to bewail one's poverty
- 窮遊kung4 jau4
to travel on a small budget
- 窮餓kung4 ngo6
exhausted and hungry
- 層出不窮cang4 ceot1 bat1 kung4
more and more emerge
- 技窮gei6 kung4
describe someone who no longer possesses the required skill of a task
- 發窮惡faat3 kung4 ok3
unreasonable behaviors thrust upon others by someone who is venting out their stress and frustrations as a result of the lack of money or financial difficulties
- 窮光蛋kung4 gwong1 daan2
poor wretch
- 山窮水盡saan1 kung4 seoi2 zeon6
mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line
- 無窮無盡mou4 kung4 mou4 zeon6
(idiom) endless; boundless; infinite
- 窮愁kung4 sau4
destitute
- 窮人kung4 jan4
poor people
- 呻窮san3 kung6
to sigh and claim one is poor
- 無窮小mou4 kung4 siu2
(math.) infinitesimal; infinitely small
- 回味無窮wui4 mei6 mou4 kung4
to have a rich aftertaste
- 不窮bat1 kung4
endless
- 有窮jau5 kung4
exhaustible