人穷志短 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 人窮志短 rénqióngzhìduǎn ㄖㄣˊ ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄓˋ ㄉㄨㄢˇ 男 女 poor and with low expectations poverty stunts ambition Character by character 人(rén)person 穷(qióng)poor 志(zhì)ambition 短(duǎn)short Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0