贫病交迫 — Chinese idiom
贫病交迫
pín bìng jiāo pò
Traditional: 貧病交迫
Meaning
- beset by poverty and illness
Character by character
- 贫pínpoor, needy, impoverished; lacking
- 病bìngsickness, illness, disease
- 交jiāoto connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect;
- 迫pòto compel, to force; pressing, urgent
Idioms sharing a character
- 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
- 家贫如洗 jiā pín rú xǐ
- 打富济贫 dǎ fù jì pín
- 脱贫致富 tuō pín zhì fù
- 访贫问苦 fǎng pín wèn kǔ
- 贫无立锥 pín wú lì zhuī
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