穷

poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

poor people / the poor

poor / impoverished

endless / boundless / inexhaustible

destitute / wretched poverty

poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond

to pursue relentlessly

impoverished / destitute

endless / boundless / infinite

fiendish / black-hearted

to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)

to use up / to exhaust / to probe to the bottom / limit / end

more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)

(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant

a remote and desolate place

mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line / nowhere to go

boundless joy

leaving a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable / lingering in memory

impoverished / backward both economically and culturally

to pursue relentlessly

poor country