民穷财尽

Traditional form:

民窮財盡

Pinyin (reading):

mínqióngcáijìn

Definitions:

• the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy

Characters:

• 民 - citizens, subjects; a nation's people
• 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
• 财 - riches, wealth, valuables
• 尽 - to exhaust, to use up, to deplete

Traditional characters:

• 民 - citizens, subjects; a nation's people
• 窮 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
• 財 - riches, wealth, valuables
• 盡 - to exhaust, to use up, to deplete