Kanji1 / 15
窮 kanji
hard up, destitute, suffer, perplexed, cornered
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
キュウキョウ
Kun readings
きわめるきわまるきわまりきわみ
Variant forms
竆Words with 窮
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1窮屈Popularnarrow; tight; cramped; formal; stiff; strict; ceremonious; rigid; constrained; uncomfortable; tight (e.g. finances)
- N1窮乏Popularpoverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
- —窮状Populardistress; wretched condition
- —窮地Populardilemma; predicament
- —困窮Popularpoverty; need; destitution; having great difficulty with; struggling greatly with; being in distress
- —窮境predicament
- —窮迫financial difficulty; distress
- —窮民poor people; the poor
- —貧窮great poverty
- —無窮eternity; infinitude; immortality
- —窮死dying in miserable circumstances
- —窮余extremity; desperation
- —窮追cornered; driven to the wall
- —窮鳥cornered bird
- —窮策desperate measure; expedient of last resort
- —窮鼠cornered rat
- —窮理study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship
- —窮すto be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
- —春窮spring staple shortage (before the harvest of rice, wheat, barley, etc.)
- —窮鬼god of poverty; vengeful spirit