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薄 kanji
dilute, thin, weak (tea), pampas grass
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Kun readings
うすいうす--うすうすめるうすまるうすらぐうすら-うすれるすすき
Words with 薄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —意志薄弱weak-willed; lacking a purpose; lacking will power to be patient, purposeful, or resolute
- —佳人薄命beauties die young; beauty and luck seldom go together
- —軽佻浮薄frivolity; levity; shallowness; superficiality
- —薄志弱行infirm of purpose and lacking in decision
- —薄利多売small profits and quick returns
- —軽薄短小small, light and thin (of consumer products, esp. electronics)
- —残忍酷薄cruel; heartless; brutal; atrocious
- —美人薄命beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die young
- —軽薄才子shallow, glib and obsequious person
- —皮相浅薄shallow and unwise; superficial and thoughtless
- —酷薄無情cold-hearted; merciless; ruthless
- —西洋薄荷peppermint (Mentha x piperita)
- —薄膜干渉thin-film interference
- —航海薄明nautical twilight
- —常用薄明civil twilight
- —天文薄明astronomical twilight
- —木立薄荷summer savory (Satureja hortensis)
- —薄明光線crepuscular rays; sunbeams
- —筑摩薄荷catnip (Nepeta cataria); catmint
- —根拠薄弱unsubstantiated; flimsy
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