Info on the Kanji 窮

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Meaning(s)

hard up, destitute, suffer, perplexed, cornered

Reading(s)

onyomi KYUU
kunyomi kiwa-meru, kiwa-maru

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stroke count 15
grade s
jlpt level N1
Example words with 窮
WordMeaning
きゅうす
kyuusu
to be hard pressed / to be at a loss / to become poor / to be reduced to poverty
きはみ
kihami
height / acme / extremity
きゅうきょう
kyuukyou
predicament
きゅうきょく
kyuukyoku
ultimate / extreme / final / eventual
きゅうくつ
kyuukutsu
narrow / tight / stiff / rigid / uneasy / formal / constrained / cramped
きゅうさく
kyuusaku
desperate measure / expedient of last resort
きゅうし
kyuu shi
dying in miserable circumstances
きゅうじょう
kyuujou
distress / wretched condition
きゅうそ
kyuuso
cornered rat or mouse
きゅうち
kyuuchi
dilemma / predicament
きゅうとり
kyuu tori
cornered bird
きゅうつい
kyuu tsui
cornered / driven to the wall
きゅうはく
kyuuhaku
financial difficulty / distress
きゅうぼう
kyuubou
poverty / destitution / privation / indigence / penury
きゅうみん
kyuumin
poor people / the poor
きゅうよ
kyuuyo
extremity / desperation
こんきゅう
konkyuu
poverty / distress
ついきゅう
tsui kyuu
investigation / enquiry / inquiry
ひんきゅう
hinkyuu
great poverty
むきゅう
mukyuu
eternity / infinitude / immortality
するきゅうする
kyuusu ru
to be hard pressed / to be at a loss / to become poor / to be reduced to poverty
まるきはまる
kihama ru
to terminate / to reach an extreme / to take to the extreme / to be in a dilemma / to be at an end
めるきはめる
kihame ru
to carry to extremes / to go to the end of something / to investigate thoroughly / to master
措大きゅうそだい
kyuu so dai
poor student
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Example Sentences with 窮
非の打ち所がない計画は、屈だなあ。

「そんなに舐められた相手じゃないけどなぁ・・・」「そうだよ、鼠猫を噛むって言うじゃないか」

まさかそのような地に立たされているとは露知らず。

列車のコンパートメントはすぐ屈になる。



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