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Chinese
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exhausted; poor
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fierce; terrible; ominous
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utmost; pole; extreme utmost; pole; extreme; to reach the limit |
evil; to hate; to loathe evil; to hate; to loathe; nauseated |
| trad. (窮凶極惡)
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窮
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凶
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極
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惡
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| simp. (穷凶极恶)
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穷
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凶
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极
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恶
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Etymology
From the Book of Han, Vol. 99 (《王莽傳》贊, Eulogy to the Memoir of Wang Mang):
乃始恣睢，奮其威詐，滔天虐民，窮凶惡極，毒流諸夏，亂延蠻貉，猶未足逞其欲焉。
乃始恣睢，奋其威诈，滔天虐民，穷凶恶极，毒流诸夏，乱延蛮貉，犹未足逞其欲焉。 - From: The Book of Han, circa 1st century CE
- Nǎi shǐ zìsuī, fèn qí wēizhà, tāotiān nüè mín, qióng xiōng è jí, dú liú zhūxià, luàn yán mánmò, yóuwèi zú chěng qí yù yān.
- Then for the first time Wang Mang gave rein to his desires and revealed his tyrannousness and deceitfulness; by oppressing the common people, his crimes towered above the skies. He had exhausted banefulness and attained the limit of evil, exerting a widespread pernicious influence and disorder among the Chinese and the barbarians as well, his desires still yet to be satisfied.
Pronunciation
Idiom
窮凶極惡
- extremely ferocious and evil