贫乏

贫乏 pínfá in a sentence

Lacking (incomplete)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

贫乏 (pínfá) means Lacking (incomplete). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他的词汇比较 贫乏 。

Tā de cíhuì bǐjiào pínfá.

His vocabulary is rather poor.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贫乏

这个地区资源 贫乏 。

Zhège dìqū zīyuán pínfá.

This region is poor in resources.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贫乏

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How is 贫乏 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 贫乏 (pínfá, "Lacking (incomplete)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 贫乏 an HSK word?

Yes — 贫乏 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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