赤貧如洗 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 赤贫如洗 chìpínrúxǐ ㄔˋ ㄆㄧㄣˊ ㄖㄨˊ ㄒㄧˇ without two nickels to rub together (idiom) impoverished Character by character 赤(chì)red 貧(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