倥偬

倥傯
kǒngzǒng
  1. pressing
  2. urgent
  3. poverty-stricken
  4. destitute

CEDICT

  1. (literary, ideophonic) hasty; hurried; pressing
  2. (literary, ideophonic) poverty-stricken
  3. hasty; hurried; pressing
  4. poverty-stricken

Wiktionary

  1. 事情纷繁迫促的样子。
  2. 穷困窘迫。《后汉书．卷五九．张衡传》：「将隆大位，必先倥偬之也。」《楚辞．刘向．九歎．思古》：「悲余生之无欢兮，愁倥偬于山陆。」也作「悾憁」。

重編國語辭典

  1. 事情纷繁迫切的样子
  2. 穷困窘迫

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 倥 kǒng
  1. urgent
  2. pressed
2 偬 zǒng
  1. busy
  2. hurried
  3. despondent

Containing this entry

戎事倥偬 róngshìkǒngzǒng
  1. a time of military urgency
  2. war crisis
戎马倥偬 róngmǎkǒngzǒng

Related entries

紧迫 jǐnpò
  1. pressing
  2. urgent
逼人 bīrén
  1. pressing
  2. threatening
急 jí
  1. urgent
  2. pressing
  3. rapid
  4. hurried
  5. worried
  6. to make (sb) anxious
急什么！

What's the rush!?

Source: Tatoeba

急迫 jípò
  1. urgent
  2. pressing
  3. imperative
絿 qiú
  1. urgent
  2. pressing
迫促 pòcù
  1. to urge
  2. urgent
  3. pressing
迫 pò
  1. to force
  2. to compel
  3. to approach or go towards
  4. urgent
  5. pressing
你可以把马带到河边可是不能迫它喝水。

You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

Source: Tatoeba

倥 kǒng
  1. urgent
  2. pressed
切迫 qièpò urgent
危迫 wēipò
  1. urgent
  2. pressing danger
孔殷 kǒngyīn
  1. urgent
  2. numerous
急促 jícù
  1. urgent
  2. hurried and brief
  3. rushing
可能會引起視力模糊、呼吸急促等副作用。

Possible side effects include blurred vision and shortness of breath.

Source: Tatoeba

急要 jíyào urgent
紧急 jǐnjí
  1. urgent
  2. emergency
他按下了緊急按鈕。

He pushed the emergency button.

Source: Tatoeba

茍 jí urgent
着紧 zháojǐn
  1. urgent
  2. in a great hurry
  3. in intimate relationship with sb
火 huǒ
  1. fire
  2. urgent
  3. ammunition
  4. fiery or flaming
  5. internal heat (Chinese medicine)
  6. hot (popular)
  7. classifier for military units (old)
  8. Kangxi radical 86
火啊！

Fire!

Source: Tatoeba

褊 biǎn
  1. narrow
  2. urgent
要紧 yàojǐn
  1. important
  2. urgent
這沒什麼要緊的。

It's nothing serious.

Source: Tatoeba

加急 jiājí
  1. to expedite
  2. (of a delivery etc) expedited
  3. express
  4. urgent
紧 jǐn
  1. tight
  2. strict
  3. close at hand
  4. near
  5. urgent
  6. tense
  7. hard up
  8. short of money
  9. to tighten
她眉頭緊鎖。

She scowled.

Source: Tatoeba

窘迫 jiǒngpò
  1. poverty-stricken
  2. very poor
  3. hard-pressed
  4. in a predicament
  5. embarrassed
贫苦 pínkǔ
  1. poverty-stricken
  2. poor
赤贫 chìpín poverty-stricken
寒酸 hánsuān
  1. wretched
  2. poverty-stricken
  3. unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
贫寒 pínhán
  1. poor
  2. poverty-stricken
  3. impoverished
困顿 kùndùn
  1. fatigued
  2. exhausted
  3. poverty-stricken
  4. in straitened circumstances
窘匮 jiǒngkuì
  1. destitute
  2. impoverished
穷困 qióngkùn
  1. destitute
  2. wretched poverty
穷愁 qióngchóu
  1. destitute
  2. troubled
  3. penniless and full of care
凋敝 diāobì
  1. impoverished
  2. destitute
  3. hard
  4. depressed (of business)
  5. tattered
  6. ragged
清贫 qīngpín
  1. poor but upright
  2. destitute
穷 qióng
  1. poor
  2. destitute
  3. to use up
  4. to exhaust
  5. thoroughly
  6. extremely
  7. (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
窮鼠囓狸。

A cornered rat will bite a cat.

Source: Tatoeba

穷苦 qióngkǔ
  1. impoverished
  2. destitute
缺衣少食 quēyīshǎoshí
  1. short of food and clothing
  2. destitute
衣单食薄 yīdānshíbó
  1. thin coat, meager food (idiom); life of wretched poverty
  2. destitute
困 kùn
  1. to trap
  2. to surround
  3. hard-pressed
  4. stranded
  5. destitute
你困吗？

Are you tired?

Are you sleepy?

Source: Tatoeba