I-adjective (keiyoushi)
meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; lacking; scanty; poor
この国には石油が乏しい。Oil is scarce in this country.
28 results for 乏
乏
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Dictionary and index codes (29)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 2-1-3, 2-2-2, 4-4-4, 2-1-2, 2-2-1, 4-3-4, 4-5-4 | SKIP code |
| 0a3.11 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2030.7 | Four corner code |
| 2070 | deroo |
| 4e4f | Unicode hex code |
| 1-43-19 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 150 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 46 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1933 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2432 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1228 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1693 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1215 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1300 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1587 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 932 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 133 | Morohashi |
| 1805 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 754 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 767 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1029 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1017 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 860 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 23 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1223 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| fa2 | Pinyin reading |
| pib | Korean reading |
| n1 | JLPT level (KANJIDIC2) |
| 30 | WaniKani level |
More words
All 5Words starting with 乏
Words ending in 乏
欠乏けつぼう
CommonN1Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbdeficiency; insufficiency; shortage; lack; want; dearth; scarcity
窮乏きゅうぼう
CommonN1Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbpoverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
貧乏びんぼう
CommonN1Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbpoverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
耐乏たいぼう
Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbausterity; voluntary privation
器用貧乏きようびんぼう
Nounjack of all trades, master of none
Sentences
All 20稼ぎに追いつく貧乏なし。
Poverty is a stranger to industry.
若いときは貧乏でかゆをすすって暮らした。
When he was young, he was so poor that he virtually had to live on gruel.
いろいろできるし、みんなから重宝されるのはいいけれど、気がついたら器用貧乏といわれないようにな。
People know how handy you are to have around. You're a real jack-of-all-trades but make sure you don't turn out to be master of none.
Names
All 2乏すえたけ
Unclassified nameSuetake
乏ほうかく
Unclassified nameHoukaku