手緊

手紧
shǒujǐn
  1. tightfisted
  2. stingy
  3. short of money
  4. hard up

CEDICT

  1. hard up; short of money
  2. tight-fisted; reluctant to spend money

Wiktionary

  1. 吝惜財物。
  2. 缺錢用。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 手 shǒu
  1. hand
  2. (formal) to hold
  3. person engaged in certain types of work
  4. person skilled in certain types of work
  5. personal(ly)
  6. convenient
  7. classifier for skill

classifiers: 雙, 隻
2 緊 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

Related entries

愛財如命 àicáirúmìng
  1. lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom)
  2. fig. avaricious
  3. tightfisted
吝 lìn (bound form) stingy
嗇 sè stingy
小氣 xiǎoqì
  1. stingy
  2. miserly
  3. narrow-minded
  4. petty
他勤俭节约，甚至是小气的。

He is thrifty, not to say stingy.

Source: Tatoeba

小裡小氣 xiǎolixiǎoqì
  1. stingy
  2. petty
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