垃圾 lā jī trash / refuse / garbage / (coll.) of poor quality / Taiwan pr. [le4 se4] syn 穷人 窮人 qióng rén poor people / the poor syn 虚弱 虛弱 xū ruò weak / in poor health syn 恶劣 惡劣 è liè vile / nasty / of very poor quality syn 贫穷 貧窮 pín qióng poor / impoverished syn 涂鸦 塗鴉 tú yā graffiti / scrawl / poor calligraphy / to write badly / to scribble syn 施舍 施捨 shī shě to give in charity / to give alms (to the poor) syn 面积 面積 miàn jī area (of a floor, piece of land etc) / surface area / tract of land 俗气 俗氣 sú qì tacky / inelegant / in poor taste / vulgar / banal syn 低俗 dī sú vulgar / poor taste syn 劣质 劣質 liè zhì shoddy / of poor quality syn 贫民 貧民 pín mín poor people syn 穷光蛋 窮光蛋 qióng guāng dàn poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond syn 香格里拉 xiāng gé lǐ lā Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" / a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel 窘迫 jiǒng pò poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed syn 劣等 liè děng poor-quality / inferior syn 陆上 陸上 lù shàng land-based / on land syn 净土 淨土 jìng tǔ (Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit) syn 低档 低檔 dī dàng low-grade / of low worth or rank / poor quality / inferior syn 稀松 稀鬆 xī sōng poor / sloppy / unconcerned / heedless / lax / unimportant / trivial / loose / porous syn 耕地 gēng dì arable land / to plow land syn 贫富 貧富 pín fù poor and rich 贫苦 貧苦 pín kǔ poverty-stricken / poor syn 贫瘠 貧瘠 pín jí barren / infertile / poor syn 地租 dì zū land rent / land tax 除暴安良 chú bào ān liáng to root out the strong and give people peace (idiom) / to rob the rich and give to the poor syn 背光 bèi guāng to be in a poor light / to do sth with one's back to the light / to stand in one's own light syn 贫寒 貧寒 pín hán poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished syn 长空 長空 cháng kōng (literary) the vast sky / (finance) eventual downturn / poor prospects in the long term syn 庄稼地 莊稼地 zhuāng jia dì crop land / arable land syn 清贫 清貧 qīng pín poor but upright / destitute syn 水陆 水陸 shuǐ lù water and land / by water and land (transport) / amphibian / delicacies from land and sea syn 见笑 見笑 jiàn xiào to mock / to be ridiculed / to incur ridicule through one's poor performance (humble) syn 贫贱 貧賤 pín jiàn poor and lowly syn 家徒四壁 jiā tú sì bì lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched syn 穷国 窮國 qióng guó poor country 哭穷 哭窮 kū qióng to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor 抱病 bào bìng to be ill / to be in poor health syn 良田 liáng tián good agricultural land / fertile land syn 贫农 貧農 pín nóng poor peasant 扶贫 扶貧 fú pín assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation syn 较差 較差 jiào chà mediocre / rather poor / not specially good 贫困地区 貧困地區 pín kùn dì qū poor region / impoverished area 贫富差距 貧富差距 pín fù chā jù disparity between rich and poor 贫道 貧道 pín dào poor Taoist syn 差事 chà shì poor / not up to standard syn 贫僧 貧僧 pín sēng poor monk (humble term used by monk of himself) 差评 差評 chà píng poor evaluation / adverse criticism 党参 黨參 dǎng shēn poor man's ginseng (Codonopsis pilosula) / codonopsis root (used in TCM) syn 标准普尔 標準普爾 biāo zhǔn pǔ ěr Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index 虚火 虛火 xū huǒ excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself syn 清苦 qīng kǔ destitute but honest / poor and simple / spartan / austere syn 倒霉蛋 dǎo méi dàn (coll.) poor devil / unfortunate man 富农 富農 fù nóng rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主[di4 zhu3] and poor peasant 貧農|贫农[pin2 nong2] 寒门 寒門 hán mén poor and humble family / my family (humble) syn 济贫 濟貧 jì pín to help the poor syn 清寒 淸寒 qīng hán poor / underprivileged / (of weather) crisp and clear syn 鱼米之乡 魚米之鄉 yú mǐ zhī xiāng (lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey syn 贫下中农 貧下中農 pín xià zhōng nóng (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants) 柴门 柴門 chái mén lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background syn 糟糠 zāo kāng chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻[zao1 kang1 qi1]) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband syn 贫弱 貧弱 pín ruò poor and feeble syn 哀鸿遍野 哀鴻遍野 āi hóng biàn yě lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom) / fig. land swarming with disaster victims / starving people fill the land syn 菜 cài vegetable / greens (CL:棵[ke1]) / dish (of food) (CL:樣|样[yang4],道[dao4],盤|盘[pan2]) / (of one's skills etc) weak / poor / (coll.) (one's) type syn 菲 fěi poor / humble / unworthy / radish (old) syn 穷 窮 qióng poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly syn 寒 hán cold / poor / to tremble syn 贫 貧 pín poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous syn 敝 bì my (polite) / poor / ruined / shabby / worn out / defeated syn 歉收 qiàn shōu crop failure / poor harvest syn 锄强扶弱 鋤強扶弱 chú qiáng fú ruò to root out the strong and support the weak (idiom) / to rob the rich and give to the poor syn 窝工 窩工 wō gōng (of workers) to have no work to do / to be underutilized (due to lack of supplies, poor organization by management etc) 窭 窶 jù poor / rustic 眊 mào having poor eyesight 地 dì earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4] syn 陷入 xiàn rù to sink into / to get caught up in / to land in (a predicament) syn 降落 jiàng luò to descend / to land syn 处女 處女 chǔ nǚ virgin / maiden / maiden (voyage etc) / virgin (land) / (a novelist's) first (work) syn 国土 國土 guó tǔ country's territory / national land syn 社 shè (bound form) society / organization / agency / (old) god of the land syn 着陆 著陸 zhuó lù landing / touchdown / to land / to touch down 登陆 登陸 dēng lù to land / to come ashore / to make landfall (of typhoon etc) / to log in (frequently used erroneous variant of 登錄|登录[deng1 lu4]) 天下 tiān xià land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule syn 牧场 牧場 mù chǎng pasture / grazing land / ranch 庄园 莊園 zhuāng yuán manor / feudal land / villa and park syn 圣地 聖地 shèng dì holy land (of a religion) / sacred place / shrine / holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc) / center of historic interest 地雷 dì léi land mine (CL:顆|颗[ke1]) / (fig.) sore point / weak spot 陆地 陸地 lù dì dry land (as opposed to the sea) syn 空地 kòng dì vacant land / open space syn 落地 luò dì to fall to the ground / to be set on the ground / to reach to the ground / to be born / (of a plane) to land syn 田野 tián yě field / open land / CL:片[pian4] syn 荒地 huāng dì wasteland / uncultivated land syn 平地 píng dì to level the land / level ground / plain syn 落下 luò xià to fall / to drop / to land (of projectile) syn 陷落 xiàn luò to surrender (of a fortress) / to fall (to the enemy) / subsidence (of land) syn 地皮 dì pí lot / section of land / ground syn 梦乡 夢鄉 mèng xiāng the land of dreams / slumberland syn 异乡 異鄉 yì xiāng foreign land / a place far from home syn 踏足 tà zú to set foot on (a foreign land etc) / to tread / (fig.) to enter (a new sphere) syn 