赤贫如洗 — Chinese idiom
赤贫如洗
chì pín rú xǐ
Traditional: 赤貧如洗
Meaning
- without two nickels to rub together
- impoverished
Character by character
- 赤chìred, scarlet; blushing; bare, naked
- 贫pínpoor, needy, impoverished; lacking
- 如rúas, as if, like, such as, supposing
- 洗xǐto bathe, to rinse, to wash
Idioms sharing a character
- 白眉赤眼 bái méi chì yǎn
- 赤手空拳 chì shǒu kōng quán
- 赤膊上阵 chì bó shàng zhèn
- 赤胆忠心 chì dǎn zhōng xīn
- 金无足赤 jīn wú zú chì
- 一贫如洗 yī pín rú xǐ
- 劫富济贫 jié fù jì pín
- 嫌贫爱富 xián pín ài fù
- 安富恤贫 ān fù xù pín
- 安贫乐道 ān pín lè dào
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