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弱 kanji
weak, frail
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
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Kun readings
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Words with 弱
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —弱結合weak coupling
- —弱塩基weak base
- —弱塩酸weak acid
- —強弱法dynamics
- —弱冷車mildly air-conditioned railway carriage
- —衰弱死death from prostration; death from emaciation
- —弱毒化attenuation; weakening
- —病弱者sickly person; invalid
- —軟弱者coward; wimp; weak-willed person
- —意志薄弱weak-willed; lacking a purpose; lacking will power to be patient, purposeful, or resolute
- —弱肉強食the law of the jungle; the strong prey on the weak; the weak become the victim of the strong
- —神経衰弱neurasthenia; nervous breakdown; concentration; memory; matching pairs
- —全身衰弱general prostration
- —薄志弱行infirm of purpose and lacking in decision
- —劣弱意識inferiority complex
- —虚弱体質weak constitution
- —交通弱者vulnerable road users (such as the elderly, mobility-impaired people and young children); people without public transport access; transport poor
- —軟弱外交weak foreign policy; weak-kneed diplomacy
- —軟弱路線weak-hearted approach; soft line; easier way (route)
- —勇将弱卒there are no cowardly soldiers under a superior general