Entry
  1. Suru verb - special class, Intransitive verb

    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)

  2. to be pressed for; to be pinched for; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

hard up, destitute, suffer, perplexed, cornered

Kun
きわ.めるきわ.まるきわ.まりきわ.み
On
キュウキョウ
Strokes
15
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1756 of 2500
Radical
cave
WaniKani
Level 56

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Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
2-3-12, 2-5-10SKIP code
3m12.4The Kanji Dictionary
3022.7Four corner code
752deroo
7aaeUnicode hex code
1-21-71JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3337Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4212New Nelson (John Haig)
2358New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2983Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1525Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2078Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1326Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1424Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1821A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2573Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1259Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
25593Morohashi
1152A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
897Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
919Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1598Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1787Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1675Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1457Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1338Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
qiong2Pinyin reading
gungKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
56WaniKani level