人穷志不穷

Traditional form:

人窮志不窮

Pinyin (reading):

rénqióngzhìbùqióng

Definitions:

• (idiom) poor but with great ambitions; poor but principled

Characters:

• 人 - man, person; people
• 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
• 志 - determination, will; mark, sign; to record, to write
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust

Traditional characters:

• 人 - man, person; people
• 窮 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
• 志 - determination, will; mark, sign; to record, to write
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 窮 - poor, destitute; to exhaust