窮則思變 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 穷则思变 qióngzésībiàn ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄗㄜˊ ㄙ ㄅㄧㄢˋ when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach idiom Character by character 窮(qióng)poor 則(zé)then 思(sī)think 變(biàn)change A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0