家贫如洗 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 家貧如洗 jiāpínrúxǐ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄆㄧㄣˊ ㄖㄨˊ ㄒㄧˇ extreme poverty (idiom) destitute penniless poor as church mice Character by character 家(jiā)home 贫(pín)poor 如(rú)as 洗(xǐ)wash A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0