| 穷 | qióng | exhausted; poor |
| 穷人 | qióng rén | poor people; the poor |
| 穷苦 | qióng kǔ | impoverished; destitute |
| 穷困 | qióng kùn | destitute; wretched poverty |
| 穷尽 | qióng jìn | end; bound; boundary |
| 穷奢极欲 | qióng shē jí yù | to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom); extreme extravagance |
| 穷光蛋 | qióng guāng dàn | poor wretch; pauper; destitute man; poverty-stricken peasant; penniless good-for-nothing; impecunious vagabond |
| 穷棒子 | qióng bàng zi | poor but spirited person; destitute; the poor (traditional) |
| 穷二代 | qióng èr dài | those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s; see also 富二代 |
| 穷匮 | qióng kuì | to be short of sth; to be wanting in sth |
| 穷国 | qióng guó | poor country |
| 穷奢极侈 | qióng shē jí chǐ | extravagant in the extreme (idiom) |
| 穷寇 | qióng kòu | cornered enemy |
| 穷山恶水 | qióng shān è shuǐ | barren hills and treacherous rapids (idiom); inhospitable natural environment |
| 穷愁 | qióng chóu | destitute; troubled; penniless and full of care |
| 穷愁潦倒 | qióng chóu liáo dǎo | destitute and troubled; in dire straits |
| 穷当益坚 | qióng dāng yì jiān | poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined; the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back |
穷当益坚，
老当益壮 | qióng dāng yì jiān ,
lǎo dāng yì zhuàng | poor but ambition, old but vigorous (idiom); robust and determined to hold one's position despite poverty and old age |
| 穷竭心计 | qióng jié xīn jì | to remain cunning even though exhausted (idiom) |
| 穷竭法 | qióng jié fǎ | Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus) |
| 穷结 | Qióng jié | variant of 琼结, Qonggyai county, Tibetan: 'Phyongs rgyas, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地区, Tibet |
| 穷结县 | Qióng jié xiàn | variant of 琼结县, Qonggyai county, Tibetan: 'Phyongs rgyas rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地区, Tibet |
| 穷蹙 | qióng cù | hard-up; in dire straits; desperate |
| 穷途末路 | qióng tú mò lù | lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse; in a plight with no way out; things have reached a dead end |
| 穷乡僻壤 | qióng xiāng pì rǎng | a remote and desolate place |
| 穷酸相 | qióng suān xiàng | wretched look; shabby looks |
| 穷饿 | qióng è | exhausted and hungry |
| 穷鼠啮狸 | qióng shǔ niè lí | a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on |
