贫困 (pínkùn) means Impoverished. Below are 7 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
他出生在一个 贫困 的家庭。
Tā chūshēng zài yí ge pínkùn de jiātíng.
He was born into a poor family.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贫困
教育是摆脱 贫困 的重要途径。
Jiàoyù shì bǎituō pínkùn de zhòngyào tújìng.
Education is an important way out of poverty.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贫困
贫困 不是短期就能消灭的。
Pínkùn bú shì duǎnqī jiù néng xiāomiè de.
Poverty cannot be eliminated in the short term.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 消灭
他资助了几十名 贫困 学生。
Tā zīzhù le jǐshí míng pínkùn xuésheng.
He funded dozens of students in need.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 资助
贫困 是许多社会问题的根源。
Pínkùn shì xǔduō shèhuì wèntí de gēnyuán.
Poverty is the root of many social problems.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 根源
他们赞助了几十个 贫困 学生。
Tāmen zànzhù le jǐshí ge pínkùn xuésheng.
They sponsored dozens of students in need.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 赞助
这笔基金专门用于资助 贫困 学生。
Zhè bǐ jījīn zhuānmén yòngyú zīzhù pínkùn xuésheng.
This fund is used specifically to support students in need.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 基金
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Questions about 贫困
How is 贫困 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 贫困 (pínkùn, "Impoverished"), 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 贫困 an HSK word?
Yes — 贫困 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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