窮無

Chinese

		exhausted; poor	not have
trad. (窮無)		窮	無
simp. (穷无)		穷	无
anagram		無窮／无穷

Pronunciation

• Northern Min (KCR): gê̤ng-mǎu

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• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: gê̤ng-mǎu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kœyŋ³³ mau²¹/

Adjective

窮無

1. (Northern Min) poor; impoverished

   • 你故倒覷輕兀窮無其人。兀□□其人就是欺你，拖你到官堂裡去。 [Northern Min, trad.]
     你故倒觑轻兀穷无其人。兀□□其人就是欺你，拖你到官堂里去。 [Northern Min, simp.]

     From: 1896, Séng Iŏ̤ Cṳ̌ing Sṳ́: Gṳ̄ing-nǎing Hǔ gâ̤ Tǔ-kióng (Lô̤-mǎ Cī), Ngǎ-gŏ̤ 2:6, Chinese characters added by Wiktionary, English translation from the World English Bible

     Nì gu̿-da̿u chū-kiáng ŭ gê̤ng-mǎu gâ̤ nêng. Ŭ cuòi-cṳ̌ gâ̤ nêng ciū-sī kí nì, tuói nì da̿u gúing-dǒ̤ng-di̿ ko̤̿. [Kienning Colloquial Romanized]

     But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 貧窮 (“poor; impoverished; poverty-striken”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		貧, 窮
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		窮, 貧窮, 窮困, 貧困, 赤貧, 貧乏, 貧苦, 貧寒, 苦寒
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	窮, 貧窮
	Singapore	窮, 貧窮, 窮苦
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	窮
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	窮
	Wanrong	窮
	Xi'an	窮
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	窮
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	苦寒
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	窮
Cantonese	Guangzhou	窮
	Hong Kong	窮
	Taishan	窮
Gan	Nanchang	窮
	Pingxiang	窮
Hakka	Meixian	窮
Jin	Taiyuan	窮
Northern Min	Jian'ou	窮無
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	窮
Southern Min	Xiamen	宋凶, 㾪赤, 窮㾪, 窮赤, 赤窮, 赤
	Quanzhou	宋凶, 窮赤, 赤窮, 赤
	Hui'an	窮赤
	Zhangzhou	宋凶, 散, 散赤, 赤
	Tainan	散, 散赤, 散食, 散凶, 窮赤, 窮散, 窮苦
	Raoping	磽
	Shantou	窮, 磽
	Jieyang	窮, 磽
	Leizhou	窮, 蒯
Wu	Shanghai	窮
	Suzhou	窮
	Danyang	窮
	Hangzhou	窮
	Jinhua	倒灶