1. adjective thin; emaciated
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '瘠'; Guoyu '瘠' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '瘠' 1, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '瘠', p. 64; Unihan '瘠')
  2. adjective weak; feeble
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '瘠' 1a, p. 185)
  3. adjective rotting meat; a rotting corpse
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 胔 (Guoyu '瘠' n; Kroll 2015 '瘠' zì, p. 185)
  4. adjective barren
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '瘠'; Guoyu '瘠' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '瘠' 2, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '瘠', p. 64; Unihan '瘠')
  5. adjective emaciated; kṛśa
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: kṛśa, Japanese: seki (BCSD '瘠', p. 857; MW 'kṛśa'; Unihan '瘠')

Also contained in

瘠薄薄瘠瘠瘦柴瘠贫瘠硗瘠瘠土瘠田荒瘠

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 8 The Great Calming and Contemplation (Mohe Zhi Guan) 摩訶止觀 — count: 3 , has English translation
  • Scroll 86 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 7 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 3
  • Scroll 56 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 7 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 98 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 9 Supplement to the Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 續一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 91 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 2
  • Scroll 95 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 2
  • Scroll 8 Fahua Wen Ju Ji 法華文句記 — count: 2

Collocations

  • 羸瘠 (羸瘠) 身體羸瘠 — Guoqu Xianzai Yinguo Jing (Sūtra on Past and Present Causes and Effects) 過去現在因果經, Scroll 3 — count: 33
  • 瘠病 (瘠病) 身常無有羸瘠病 — Pradīpadānīya (Fo Shuo Shi Deng Gongde Jing) 佛說施燈功德經, Scroll 1 — count: 11
  • 瘦瘠 (瘦瘠) 其身瘦瘠 — Vyāsaparipṛcchā (Piyesuo Wen Jing) 毘耶娑問經, Scroll 1 — count: 10
  • 枯瘠 (枯瘠) 滿息治枯瘠 — The Great Calming and Contemplation (Mohe Zhi Guan) 摩訶止觀, Scroll 8 — count: 7
  • 云瘠 (雲瘠) 文云瘠少肉也從疒叜聲也 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 7 — count: 6
  • 毁瘠 (毀瘠) 群臣百姓望見其毀瘠之容深墨之色 — Shi Jian Ji Gu Lue Xu Ji 釋鑑稽古略續集, Scroll 2 — count: 5
  • 臞瘠 (臞瘠) 今通作瘦俗字也爾雅臞瘠也說 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 7 — count: 4
  • 寒瘠 (寒瘠) 寒瘠 — Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄, Scroll 2 — count: 4
  • 瘠过 (瘠過) 居母憂毀瘠過禮 — Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳, Scroll 5 — count: 3
  • 瘠骨立 (瘠骨立) 瘠骨立 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 21 — count: 3