貧無立錐之地 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 贫无立锥之地 pínwúlìzhuīzhīdì ㄆㄧㄣˊ ㄨˊ ㄌㄧˋ ㄓㄨㄟ ㄓ ㄉㄧˋ not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom) absolutely destitute Character by character 貧(pín)poor 無(wú)not to have 立(lì)surname Li 錐(zhuī)cone 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 地(dì)earth A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0