| 家 |
jiā pín rú xǐ | extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice |
| 家 |
jiā | used in 家伙 and 家俱 |
| 家 |
jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:个 |
| 贫 |
pín | poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous |
| 如 |
rú | as / as if / such as |
| 洗 |
xǐ | to wash; to bathe / to develop (photographs) / to shuffle (cards etc) / to erase (a recording) |