Chinese symbol for “pauper”
穷光蛋
qióng guāng dàn
Traditional: 窮光蛋
poor wretch; pauper; destitute man; poverty-stricken peasant
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pauper is 穷光蛋 (qióng guāng dàn), defined as: poor wretch; pauper; destitute man; poverty-stricken peasant; penniless good-for-nothing; impecunious vagabond.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 穷光蛋.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贫穷 (貧窮) | pín qióng | poor; impoverished |
| 穷人 (窮人) | qióng rén | poor people; the poor |
| 无穷 (無窮) | wú qióng | endless; boundless |
| 层出不穷 (層出不窮) | céng chū bù qióng | more and more emerge; innumerable succession |
| 穷困 (窮困) | qióng kùn | destitute; wretched poverty |
| 穷苦 (窮苦) | qióng kǔ | impoverished; destitute |
| 阳光 (陽光) | yáng guāng | sunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic |
| 曝光 | bào guāng | to expose (photography); (fig.) to expose (a scandal) |
| 蛋糕 | dàn gāo | cake; 块 (kuài),个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pauper”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.