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
- —貧窮化impoverishment
- —困窮者the poor; the needy; the destitute
- —窮措大poor student (scholar)
- —窮するto be at a loss; to be puzzled; to be perplexed; to be at one's wit's end; to be in a dilemma; to not know what to (do, say, etc); to be pressed for; to be pinched for; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
- —窮屈袋hakama; man's formal divided skirt
- —無窮動moto perpetuo; perpetual motion
- —窮理学(Western) physics
- —無窮花rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus); Korean rose
- —天壌無窮as eternal as heaven and earth
- —窮余の策desperate measure
- —窮鼠噛猫a cornered rat will bite the cat; one who is cornered will fight like a devil
- —困苦窮乏hardships and privations
- —窮余の一策desperate measure; last-ditch effort
- —窮地に陥るto be caught in a dilemma; to get into a scrape
- —生活困窮者person in need; person facing economic hardship
- —窮すれば通ずnecessity is the mother of invention; there is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one
- —窮鼠猫を噛むa cornered rat will bite a cat; despair gives courage to a coward
- —言葉に窮するto be at a loss for words
- —返答に窮するto be embarrassed for a reply; to be at a loss for a reply
- —呼吸窮迫症候群respiratory distress syndrome