청빈해요 · 청빈했어요 · 청빈한 (+noun)
honorably poor, living in honest poverty
Example
그 학자는 평생 청빈하게 살았습니다.
That scholar lived in honest poverty all his life.
Word parts
청 clean+빈 poor
Literally 'clean and poor' — poor because honest, a Confucian ideal.
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