DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

窮在鬧市無人問，富在深山有遠親

简穷在闹市无人问，富在深山有远亲 · 繁窮在鬧市無人問，富在深山有遠親

Mandarin · pinyin qióng zài nào shì wú rén wèn , fù zài shēn shān yǒu yuǎn qīn

the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain

Characters in this entry

窮: Look up this written character
在: zài · be at, in, on; consist in, rest
鬧: Look up this written character
市: shì · market, fair; city, town; trade
無: Look up this written character
人: rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
問: wèn · ask (about), inquire after
富: fù · abundant, ample; rich, wealthy
深: shēn · deep; depth; far; very, extreme
山: shān · mountain, hill, peak
有: yǒu · have, own, possess; exist
遠: yuǎn · distant, remote, far; profound
親: qīn · relatives, parents; intimate
穷: qióng · poor, destitute, impoverished
闹: nào · quarrel; dispute hotly
无: wú · negative, no, not; Kangxi radical 71
问: wèn · ask about, inquire after
远: yuǎn · distant, remote, far; profound
亲: qīn · relatives, parents; intimate the hazel nut or filbert tree a thorny tree

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

16character links

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

kung4 zoi6 naau6 si5 mou4 jan4 man6, fu3 zoi6 sam1 saan1 jau5 jyun5 can1

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.