贫乏 pínfá▶ miskin; kekurangan; melarat

Stroke order

贫乏 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 贫 — 8 strokes
• 乏 — 4 strokes

Senses

1. impoverished
2. lacking
3. deficient
4. limited
5. meager
6. impoverishment
7. lack
8. deficiency

Related words

• 贫困Miskin
• 缺乏Kekurangan

贫乏 is pronounced pínfá and means “miskin; kekurangan; melarat”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 贫乏 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.