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穷
Meaning
- poor
- destitute
- to use up
Example sentence
他们都不穷。
All of them are not poor.
The character 穷
穷 is 穴, a cave, over 力: labour under a hole in the ground. Poor — 穷人 — and also at an end: 无穷 is endless, having no exhaustion to come to.