穷愁潦倒 (qióng chóu liáo dǎo) — impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless · Chinese · Nantoka

qióng chóu liáo dǎo

Traditional: 窮愁潦倒

穷愁潦倒 (qióng chóu liáo dǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless”.

Meanings

1impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless

Characters in 穷愁潦倒

穷qióng · poor 愁chóu · to worry about 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 倒霉to have bad luck 倒数to count backwards (from 10 down to 0)倒数inverse number 倒下to collapse 穷poor 摔倒to fall down 倒是contrary to what one might expect 打倒to overthrow 穷人poor people 愁to worry about

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