简陋

jiǎn loù · HSK 7

simple and crude

🛖 简 simple/brief + 陋 crude/shabby = bare-bones and shabby

简 carries the sense of simple or brief (as in 简单), and 陋 means crude, coarse, or shabby. Stacked together they describe a place or setup that is plain to the point of being run-down.

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