poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous

= + : Pocahontas (pi) has the crab (贝) cut her hair while stopping the time with a stopwatch (分) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). While the crab cuts quite fast, the resulting hairstyle is of very poor (贫) quality.

贫 character breakdown

to divide; to separate / to distribute; to allocate / to distinguish (good and bad) / (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局[fen1 ju2]) / fraction / one tenth (of certain units) / unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm / minute (unit of time) / minute (angular measurement unit) / a point (in sports or games) / 0.01 yuan (unit of money)

= + : Symbol for this character: A stopwatch (from the meaning "minute"). Frankenstein's monster participates in the annual championship of chopping eightballs in front of the encampment. Using a cleaver, he chops as many eightballs as he can in one minute.
part / share / ingredient / component
surname Bei
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.

Characters with 贫 as component

贫 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 贫

to rob the rich to help the poor
poor but upright / destitute
to favor the rich and disdain the poor (idiom) / snobbish
see 兒不嫌母醜,狗不嫌家貧|儿不嫌母丑,狗不嫌家贫[er2 bu4 xian2 mu3 chou3 , gou3 bu4 xian2 jia1 pin2]
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom)
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)
assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation
to help the poor / almsgiving for the needy / to assist poor households or poor regions
extremely poor but not destitute
robbing the rich to help the poor
to reduce poverty / poverty reduction
to help the poor
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)

Sentences with 贫

wàn
suì
 
 
pín
dào
wéi
wàn
suì
suǒ
liàn
jiǔ
zhuǎn
ji̅n
da̅n