First opened Saturday, May 20, 2023
窮乏
きゅうぼう
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
poverty
Taken apart
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In a sentence
飢饉が人々にひどい窮乏をもたらした。
Famine caused great distress among the people.
彼はそんな窮乏の中でどうやって暮らしていたのか。
How did he make his living in such poverty?
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What Wiktionary says
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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.