穷困潦倒 — Chinese idiom
穷困潦倒
qióng kùn liáo dǎo
Traditional: 窮困潦倒
Meaning
- to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope
Character by character
- 穷qióngpoor, destitute; to exhaust
- 困kùnto surround; to besiege; surrounded, in distress;
- 潦liáoto flood; puddle; dejected, careless
- 倒dǎoto collapse, to fall over; to lie down
Idioms sharing a character
- 国弱民穷 guó ruò mín qióng
- 图穷匕见 tú qióng bǐ xiàn
- 安富恤穷 ān fù xù qióng
- 层出不穷 céng chū bù qióng
- 山穷水尽 shān qióng shuǐ jìn
- 后患无穷 hòu huàn wú qióng
- 日暮途穷 rì mù tú qióng
- 民穷财尽 mín qióng cái jìn
- 无穷无尽 wú qióng wú jìn
- 理屈词穷 lǐ qū cí qióng
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