mín qióng cái jìndictionary entry
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the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
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民窮財盡 民穷财尽 [min2 qiong2 cai2 jin4] /the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy/

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