穷家薄业
Traditional form:
窮家薄業
Pinyin (reading):
qióngjiābóyè
Definitions:
- lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom)
- fig. destitute
Characters:
- 穷 - poor, destitute; to exhaust
- 家 - house, home, residence; family
- 薄 - thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
- 业 - business, profession; to study, to work
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