Kanji
N1 4 strokes Grade 8 freq #1646

destitution, scarce, limited

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

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Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

poverty-stricken; destitute
deficiency; insufficiency
poverty; destitution
austerity; voluntary privation
poor person; the poor
achromia; albinism
oxygen deficiency; anoxia
gastric achlorhydria
oliguria
budget travel; penniless travel

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

meagre; meager
to get the short end of the stick; to get the bad end of a bargain
poverty is a stranger to industry; diligence is the mother of good fortune
vitamin deficiency disease; avitaminosis
shabby; mean
pencil sharpened at both ends; sharpening a pencil at both ends
completely motionless; totally still
poor households have many children
poverty caused by the high costs of (repetitive) moving
curly hairstyle created by braiding (rather than perming)

Example sentences

He does not know what it is to be poor.

He remained a poor man.

The war ushered in a period of shortages and deprivation.

Waste makes want.