Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「人窮志短」, explained here.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「人窮志短」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Poor: distress; short: short. When people are in difficult circumstances, their ambitions become smaller.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén qióng zhì duǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 kung4 ji3 dyun2
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
