| Chinese Text Project |
| 窮 U+7AAE |  Seal script | 穷 Simplified character | 竆 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 穴+ 10 strokes = 15 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.26#21 Kangxi: p.867#10 Cihai: p.1000r6c05 GSR: 1006.h Hanyu: v4,p2737#12 |
| Composition: | Top: 穴, bottom: 躬. Component of: 𠤊 𤢶 𡃕 𡾈 𣋶 𧔚 藭 𧸺 |
| Mandarin: | qióng ㄑㄩㄥˊ |
| Cantonese: | kung4 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *ghiung |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·上平聲·東·窮》窮：窮極也，又窮奇獸名聞人鬬乃助不直者。渠弓切，三。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·穴部·十》窮：《韻會小補》說文本作竆。从穴躳聲。隷作窮。又《集韻》居雄切，音弓。恭貌。本作匔。或从穴作窮。 |
| Fanqie: | 渠弓 (《廣韻·上平聲·東·窮》) |
| Unihan definition: | poor, destitute, impoverished |
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[Show proper names]Example usage
| 《論語·衛靈公》: | 子路慍見曰：「君子亦有窮乎？」 |
| Zi Lu, with evident dissatisfaction, said, "Has the superior man likewise to endure in this way?" | |
| 《孟子·盡心上》: | 君子所性，雖大行不加焉，雖窮居不損焉，分定故也。 |
| What belongs by his nature to the superior man cannot be increased by the largeness of his sphere of action, nor diminished by his dwelling in poverty and retirement - for this reason that it is determinately apportioned to him by Heaven. | |
| 《禮記·三年問》: | 故有血氣之屬者，莫知於人，故人於其親也，至死不窮。 |
| But among all creatures that have blood and breath, there is none which has intelligence equal to man; and hence the feeling of man on the death of his kindred remains unexhausted even till death. | |
| 《揚子法言》: | 曰：「水，測之而益深，窮之而益遠。」 |
| Yangzi said: As for water, the more you measure it, the deeper it gets. The more you trace it to its source, the broader it becomes. | |
| 《墨子·經上》: | 窮，或有前不容尺也。 |
| The qiong (limit) is wherever at the next advance there is no room for a measured length. | |
| 《莊子·逍遙遊》: | 窮髮之北，有冥海者，天池也。 |
| In the bare and barren north there is the dark and vast ocean - the Pool of Heaven. | |
| 《道德經》: | 多言數窮，不如守中。 |
| Much speech to swift exhaustion lead we see; Your inner being guard, and keep it free. | |
| 《商君書·更法》: | 吾聞窮巷多怪，曲學多辨。 |
| I have heard it said that in poor country districts, much is thought strange, and that in village schools there are many debates. | |
| 《史記·五帝本紀》: | 帝顓頊生子曰窮蟬。 |
| Emperor Zhuanxu had a son, Chiungchan. | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 虞舜、孝己孝而親不愛，比干、子胥忠而君不用，仲尼、顏淵知而窮於世。 |
| 《說苑·君道》: | 河間獻王曰：「堯存心於天下，加志於窮民，痛萬姓之罹罪，憂眾生之不遂也。」 |
| 《春秋繁露·竹林》: | 故案《春秋》而適往事，窮其端而視其故，得誌之君子，有喜之人，不可不慎也。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷一》: | 宜於時則達，厄於窮則處，信禮者也。 |
| 《大戴禮記·主言》: | 使之哀鰥寡，養孤獨，恤貧窮，誘孝悌，選賢舉能。 |
| 《白虎通德論·號》: | 嚳者，極也，言其能施行窮極道德也。 |
| 《新書·脩政語上》: | 帝堯曰：「吾存心於先古，加志於窮民，痛萬姓之罹罪，憂眾生之不遂也。」 |
| 《新序·善謀》: | 吾聞窮鄉多怪，曲學多辯。 |
| 《中論·脩本》: | 故知者舉甚輕之事以任天下之重，行甚邇之路以窮天下之遠。 |
| 《孔子家語·王言解》: | 則賢者說而不肖者懼，哀鰥寡，養孤獨，恤貧窮，誘孝弟，選才能。 |
| 《潛夫論·讚學》: | 夫道成於學而藏於書，學進於振而廢於窮。 |
| 《論衡·偶會》: | 夏、殷之朝適窮，桀、紂之惡適稔。 |
| 《太玄經·玄首都序》: | 玄，渾行無窮正象天。 |
| 《風俗通義·五伯》: | 至道不遠，三五復反，譬若循連鐶，順鼎耳，窮則反本，終則復始也。 |
| 《孔叢子·廣詁》: | 彊、窮、克，竟也。 |
| 《申鑒·雜言下》: | 故曰：窮理盡性以至於命，孟子稱性善。 |
| 《忠經·辨忠章》: | 以無空窮。 |
| 《素書·求人之志章》: | 深計遠慮，所以不窮。 |
| 《新語·道基》: | 於是後聖乃定《五經》，明《六藝》，承天統地，窮事微，原情立本，以緒人倫，宗諸天地，脩篇章，垂諸來世，被諸鳥獸，以匡衰亂，天人合策，原道悉備，智者達其心，百工窮其巧，乃調之以管絃絲竹之音，設鍾鼓歌舞之樂，以節奢侈，正風俗，通文雅。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·瞽師賦》: | 夫何矇眛之瞽兮，心窮忽以鬱伊。 |
| 《列子·天瑞》: | 疑獨，其道不可窮。 |
| 《鶡冠子·道端》: | 是以明主之治世也，急於求人，弗獨為也，與天與地，建立四維，以輔國政，鉤繩相布，銜橛相制，參偶具備，立位乃固，經氣有常理，以天地動，逆天時不祥，有祟事，不仕賢，無功必敗，出究其道，入窮其變，張軍衛外，禍反在內，所備甚遠，賊在所愛。 |
| 《文子·道原》: | 夫道者，高不可極，深不可測，苞裹天地，稟受無形，原流泏泏，沖而不盈，濁以靜之徐清，施之無窮，無所朝夕，表之不盈一握，約而能張，幽而能明，柔而能剛，含陰吐陽，而章三光 |
| 《文始真經·一宇》: | 關尹子曰：「以盆為沼，以石為島，魚環游之，不知其幾千萬里而不窮也。」 |
| 《列仙傳·馬丹》: | 事文去獻，顯沒不窮。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 我乘乘如窮鄙，無所歸就。 |
| 《韓非子·主道》: | 明君之道，使智者盡其慮，而君因以斷事，故君不窮於智。 |
| 《慎子·威德》: | 走背跋䠯窮穀野走十裏，藥也，走背辭藥則足廢。 |
| 《管子·輕重甲》: | 困窮之民，聞而糴之，釜鏂無止，遠通不推 |
| 《孫子兵法·兵勢》: | 故善出奇者，無窮如天地，不竭如江河，終而復始，日月是也。 |
| 《六韜·六守》: | 太公曰：「富之而觀其無犯，貴之而觀其無驕，付之而觀其無轉，使之而觀其無隱，危之而觀其無恐，事之而觀其無窮。」 |
| 《司馬法·仁本》: | 不窮不能而哀憐傷病，是以明其仁也。 |
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