Kanji
N1 6 strokes Grade 8 freq #1620

inferiority, be inferior to, be worse

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

power chikara

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

inferiority (e.g. numerical); inferior position
poor (quality, conditions, etc.); bad
deterioration (in quality, performance, etc.); degradation
mean; contemptible
(relative) merits; superiority or inferiority
inferiority complex; sense of inferiority
clumsy; unskillful

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to be inferior to; to be less good at
unfavourable comparison; unfavorable comparison

Example sentences

For that reason, temporary workers are working under inferior conditions.

What a mean fellow he is!

Whatever faults he may have, meanness is not one of them.

He is second to none in mathematics.