National specificity of-concept troubles in Russian and Chinese languages (on the material data dictionaries)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept “poverty” in Russian and Chinese languages, according to the analysis, some common and distinguishing features of representation this concept are identified. The common feature of representation concept “poverty” in Russian and Chinese linguacultures is a bad financial situation. In Chinese “poverty” means the poverty limit and low social status, but in Russian “poverty” means financial situation without excesses, that is why derivative meaning of this word are ordinary and cheap.