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乏 kanji
destitution, scarce, limited
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
とぼしいともしい
Words with 乏
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1窮乏Popularpoverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
- N1欠乏Populardeficiency; insufficiency; shortage; lack; want; dearth; scarcity
- N1貧乏Popularpoverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
- —貧乏人Popularpoor person; the poor
- —耐乏austerity; voluntary privation
- —乏尿oliguria
- —貧乏神god of poverty
- —貧乏性parsimonious spirit; tendency to be frugal; inclination to scrimp and save; tendency to fuss over trivial things; worrier's disposition
- —欠乏症deficiency disease (e.g. protein, vitamin, etc.)
- —空乏層depletion layer (of transistor)
- —貧乏舌being unable to discern good food from bad; poor person's taste (in food); unsophisticated palate
- —器用貧乏jack of all trades, master of none
- —耐乏生活hard life; life of austerity
- —貧乏所帯poor household
- —貧乏くじshort end of the stick; short straw; unlucky number; blank; bad bargain
- —困苦欠乏hardships and privations
- —困苦窮乏hardships and privations
- —耐乏予算austerity budget; belt-tightening budget
- —大漁貧乏impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch
- —豊作貧乏impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests