贫

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poor; inadequate; deficient; garrulous

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

Money 贝 that must be split 分; 分 also provides the pronunciation

Components 分贝

impoverished · Heisig RSH #695

分 part + shells

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
地中海贫血	Dì zhōng Hǎi pín xuè	thalassemia (medicine)
海洋性贫血	hǎi yáng xìng pín xuè	thalassemia
安贫乐道	ān pín lè dào	to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom)
失血性贫血	shī xuè xìng pín xuè	blood loss anemia
贫病交加	pín bìng jiāo jiā	poverty compounded by ill health (idiom)
贫民区	pín mín qū	slum area; ghetto
再生不良性贫血	zài shēng bù liáng xìng pín xuè	aplastic anemia
贫油国	pín yóu guó	country poor in oil
贫下中农	pín xià zhōng nóng	(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, bef…
一贫如洗	yī pín rú xǐ	(idiom) penniless; destitute
家贫如洗	jiā pín rú xǐ	extreme poverty (idiom); destitute; penniless; poor as church mice
贫血性坏死	pín xuè xìng huài sǐ	anemic necrosis
贫无立锥之地	pín wú lì zhuī zhī dì	not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute
贫血症	pín xuè zhèng	anemia
脑贫血	nǎo pín xuè	cerebral anemia
贫气	pín qì	mean; stingy; garrulous
贫道	pín dào	(humble) I (used by Taoists)
打富济贫	dǎ fù jì pín	to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)
贫相	pín xiàng	mean; stingy
贫民	pín mín	poor people