穷当益坚 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 窮當益堅 qióngdāngyìjiān ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄉㄤ ㄧˋ ㄐㄧㄢ poor but ambitious (idiom) hard-pressed but determined the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back Character by character 穷(qióng)poor 当(dāng)dong 益(yì)surname Yi 坚(jiān)strong A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0