Kanji
N2 10 strokes Grade 2 freq #958

weak, frail

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

bow yumi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

weak point; weakness
weak person; the weak
weak constitution; weak body
timid; weak-kneed
feeble-mindedness; intellectual disability
weakness; debility
weak (constitution); sickly
poor; meagre
strength and weakness; (degree of) strength
mild earthquake

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

(a) weakness; shortcoming
weak; frail
to abate; to weaken
abatement; weakening
to weaken
bearish tendency; weak tone (of a market)

Example sentences

He was not conscious of his weak point.

Every man has his weak points.

She always sides with the weak.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.