First opened Sunday, April 6, 2008
必需品
ひつじゅひん
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necessities, essential
Hitsujuhin is 必需 (hitsuju, “need, requirement, essentialness”) plus 品 (-hin, “item, good”).
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In a sentence
カメラは私の必需品でした。
The camera was essential for me.
芸術は贅沢品ではない、必需品だ。
Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 必需(ひつじゅ) (hitsuju, “need, requirement, essentialness, indispensability”) + 品(ひん) (-hin, “item, good”). Compare the formation of Chinese 必需品 (bìxūpǐn).”
Source: Wiktionary: 必需品 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.