穷困潦倒 (qióng kùn liáo dǎo) — (idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope · Chinese · Nantoka

qióng kùn liáo dǎo

Traditional: 窮困潦倒

穷困潦倒 (qióng kùn liáo dǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope”.

Meanings

1(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope

Characters in 穷困潦倒

穷qióng · poor 困kùn · to trap 潦lǎo · flooded 倒dǎo · to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally

Related words

倒to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally 倒to invert; to place upside down or frontside back 困难difficult 困to trap 困sleepy 倒霉to have bad luck 困扰to perplex 困惑bewildered 倒数to count backwards (from 10 down to 0)倒数inverse number 倒下to collapse 穷poor

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