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窮

qióng

poor

Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 躬 represents the sound.

Components
穴 meaning component

穴  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

躬 sound component

躬  Sound component

gōng

  

body

Evolution

窮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
窮 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
窮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

穷 (窮) 

qióng

poor, destitute, impoverished; poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

Most common words with 窮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

穷

poor

穷人

poor people

贫穷

poor

无穷

endless

层出不穷

more and more emerge

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

藭

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)uŋ

gjuwng

qióng

poor

*m-[g](r)uŋ

gjuwng

qióng

exhaust


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.2491% of movies

1730th most common character in movies

1343rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

穷

Unicode

U+7AAE

Shuowen

“竆，極也。从穴，躳聲。”


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