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 农民 農民 nóng mín peasant / farmer 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 农夫 農夫 nóng fū peasant / farmer syn 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 窘迫 jiǒng pò poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed syn 劣等 liè děng poor-quality / inferior syn 农家 農家 nóng jiā peasant family 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 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 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 清贫 清貧 qīng pín poor but upright / destitute syn 农工 農工 nóng gōng agricultural worker / abbr. for 農業工人|农业工人 / peasant and worker (in Marxism) 庄稼汉 莊稼漢 zhuāng jia hàn peasant / farmer 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 农妇 農婦 nóng fù peasant woman (in former times) / female farm worker syn 农民起义 農民起義 nóng mín qǐ yì peasant revolt 团练 團練 tuán liàn local militia formed to suppress peasant rebellion (old) 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 里人 lǐ rén person from the same village, town or province / peasant (derog.) / (of a school of thought etc) follower 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 李自成 lǐ zì chéng Li Zicheng (1605-1645), leader of peasant rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty 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 人民团体 人民團體 rén mín tuán tǐ people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc) / mass organization 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 张华 張華 zhāng huà Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention 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 黄巢 黃巢 huáng cháo Huang Chao (-884), leader of peasant uprising 875-884 in late Tang 闯王 闖王 chuǎng wáng Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645) 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 张献忠 張獻忠 zhāng xiàn zhōng Zhang Xianzhong (1606-1647), leader of a late-Ming peasant revolt 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 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 自耕农 自耕農 zì gēng nóng owner peasant / land-holding peasant 义和团运动 義和團運動 yì hé tuán yùn dòng Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901), a peasant uprising that attempted to expel all foreigners from China, eventually suppressed by an international coalition 黄巾起义 黃巾起義 huáng jīn qǐ yì Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184) 捻军 捻軍 niǎn jūn Nian Army, leading a peasant rebellion against the Qing dynasty in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion further south 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 劫富济贫 劫富濟貧 jié fù jì pín to rob the rich to help the poor syn 薄地 bó dì barren land / poor soil syn 黄巢起义 黃巢起義 huáng cháo qǐ yì Huang Chao peasant uprising 875-884 in late Tang, led by Huang Chao 人穷志短 人窮志短 rén qióng zhì duǎn poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition 安富恤穷 安富恤窮 ān fù xù qióng to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom) 安富恤贫 安富恤貧 ān fù xù pín to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom) 家贫如洗 家貧如洗 jiā pín rú xǐ extreme poverty (idiom) / destitute / penniless / poor as church mice 强将手下无弱兵 強將手下無弱兵 qiáng jiàng shǒu xià wú ruò bīng there are no poor soldiers under a good general (idiom) 打富济贫 打富濟貧 dǎ fù jì pín to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom) 扶弱抑强 扶弱抑強 fú ruò yì qiáng to support the weak and restrain the strong (idiom) / robbing the rich to help the poor 穷当益坚 窮當益堅 qióng dāng yì jiān poor but ambitious (idiom) / hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back syn 蓬户瓮牖 蓬戶甕牖 péng hù wèng yǒu thatched house, broken urn windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home syn 蓬门筚户 蓬門篳戶 péng mén bì hù overgrown gate, wicker windows (idiom) / poor person's house / humble home 裒多益寡 póu duō yì guǎ to take from the rich and give to the poor (idiom) 亲疏贵贱 親疏貴賤 qīn shū guì jiàn close and distant, rich and poor (idiom) / everyone / all possible relations 买椟还珠 買櫝還珠 mǎi dú huán zhū to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom) syn 城市贫民 城市貧民 urban poor syn 笨嘴拙舌 bèn zuǐ zhuō shé clumsy in speech / poor speaker 