窮

See also 穷

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 身 (“body”) + phonetic 穹

Han character

窮 (radical 116 穴+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹竹弓 (JCHHN), four-corner 3022₇)

1. poor, destitute, impoverished

References

• KangXi: page 867, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25593
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2737, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7AAE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

窮 (simplified 穷, Yale kung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

窮 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: きわめる (kiwameru), きわまる (kiwamaru)

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Korean

Hanja

窮 (hangeul 궁, revised gung, McCune-Reischauer kung, Yale kwung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

窮 (simplified 穷, pinyin qióng (qiong2), tiǎo (tiao3), Wade-Giles ch'iung², t'iao³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

窮 (cùng, khùng, còng)