窮

qióng = qu + (e)ng2

poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

穷 = 力 + 穴 : Cupid (qu) exhausted (穷) his bank account and is very poor (穷). He has nowhere to go and nothing to do anymore. In the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) he creates a big cave painting (穴) out of boredom. Idly he paints a big power button (力) wishing that upon hitting it, money would rain down on him.

窮 character breakdown

窮
- 穴
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 宀
    - 丶
    - 冖
- 躬
  - 弓
  - 身
    - 丿
    - 自
      - 丶
      - 目
        
        二
        
        一
        
        囗

xué = xu + e2

cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

穴 = 八 + 宀 : Xu Xian presents his newest piece of art: Cave paintings painted on a gigantic eight-ball. Somehow he managed to set it up inside the elevators entrance. For his great artistic achievement, he gained a honorary doctor, and proudly wears his hard earned graduation cap.

go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1

body (of a human, esp. the torso) / to bow / (literary) oneself; personally

躬 = 弓 + 身 : Gitta Giraffe (gu) tries to personally (躬) shoot herself (躬) with a composite bow (弓). In front of the engine she bows (躬) to fit her body (躬) into the bow, and so as to not get her clothes stuck in the bowstring she wears a well-fitting body suit (身).

go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1

old variant of 躬[gong1]

躬 = 弓 + 身 : Gitta Giraffe (gu) tries to personally (躬) shoot herself (躬) with a composite bow (弓). In front of the engine she bows (躬) to fit her body (躬) into the bow, and so as to not get her clothes stuck in the bowstring she wears a well-fitting body suit (身).

Characters with 窮 as component

qióng = qu + (e)ng2

see 芎藭|芎䓖[xiong1 qiong2]

Words with 窮

more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)

mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line / nowhere to go

boundless joy

leaving a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable / lingering in memory

impoverished / backward both economically and culturally

to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor

it will cause no end of trouble (idiom)

poor

poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition

to endure poverty stoically

the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)

boundless joy

lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4] by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲[Jing1 Ke1] in 227 BC) (idiom) / fig. malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent

see 圖窮匕見|图穷匕见[tu2 qiong2 bi3 xian4]

to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)

Song Renqiong (1909-2005), general of the People's Liberation Army

poor but with great ambitions (idiom) / poor but principled

endless / boundless / inexhaustible

extraordinary strength / super strong / strong as an ox

Sentences with 窮

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