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

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= qu initial

Qu is for Cupid.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ (e)ng2 final

In the engine’s kitchen.

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窮 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
xué = xu + e2
cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4]
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gōng = gu + (e)ng1
body (of a human, esp. the torso) / to bow / (literary) oneself; personally
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old variant of 躬[gong1]
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Characters with 窮 as component

see 芎藭|芎䓖[xiong1 qiong2]
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Words with 窮

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impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
poor but with great ambitions (idiom) / poor but principled

Sentences with 窮

窮 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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qióng

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

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