穷乡僻壤

Traditional form:

窮鄉僻壤

Pinyin (reading):

qióngxiāngpìrǎng

Definitions:

• a remote and desolate place

Characters:

• 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
• 乡 - country, village; rural
• 僻 - out-of-the-way, remote; unorthodox
• 壤 - soil, loam, earth; rich

Traditional characters:

• 窮 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
• 鄉 - country, village; rural
• 僻 - out-of-the-way, remote; unorthodox
• 壤 - soil, loam, earth; rich