人穷志短

Traditional form:

人窮志短

Pinyin (reading):

rénqióngzhìduǎn

Definitions:

• poor and with low expectations
• poverty stunts ambition

Characters:

• 人 - man, person; people
• 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
• 志 - determination, will; mark, sign; to record, to write
• 短 - brief, short; deficient, lacking

Traditional characters:

• 人 - man, person; people
• 窮 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
• 志 - determination, will; mark, sign; to record, to write
• 短 - brief, short; deficient, lacking