貧

low-grade ore

Proverb

poor households have many children

to be born poor; to be born into poverty

poor soil; poor country

Slang

tiny buttocks

rich and poor, high and low; people of all ranks

Colloquial

curly hairstyle created by braiding (rather than perming)

petty; trivial; trifling; paltry; meager; meagre

edentates (i.e. anteaters, sloths, armadillos)

poverty line

one's mite; widow's mite; one lantern from a poor man (i.e. no-one can give more than the only thing they have)

lake with low nutrient level; oligotrophic lake; unproductive lake

oligochaetes

poverty problem; poverty issue

pencil sharpened at both ends; sharpening a pencil at both ends

Proverb

poverty is the greatest motivator; poverty is the mother of invention

Proverb

good luck does not last; a poor priest's two memorial services (being so close in time the priest can only eat at one of them)

Rare term

impoverished student; poor student

impoverished student; poor student

poor person

completely motionless; totally still

extreme poverty

gradually becoming poor; situation getting gradually worse and worse

poverty without selfish desire; honourable poverty (honorable); being poor yet honest

jack of all trades, master of none