粵

貧pan4乏fat6

simp贫乏
pan4 fat6pín fá

English

  1. impoverished
  2. lacking
  3. deficient
  4. limited
  5. meager
  6. impoverishment
  7. lack
  8. deficiency
  9. short of; lacking; poor

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 缺少、非常唔充足

Examples

  • 日本自然资源贫乏。

    Japan is poor in natural resources.

    Tatoeba · fucongcong CC BY

  • 資源貧乏

    lack of resources

  • 佢知識好貧乏,有好多野都唔識。

    His knowledge is very poor. There are so many things that he doesn't know.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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