漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
窮: hard up, destitute
Also: suffer, perplexed, cornered
JLPT N115 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 穴hole(meaning)
- 躬(sound)
穴 carries the meaning · 躬 gives the sound
15 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
キュウkyuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 窮地きゅうちdilemma; predicament
- 窮状きゅうじょうdistress; wretched condition
- 窮屈きゅうくつnarrow; tight; cramped
- 困窮こんきゅうpoverty; need; destitution
- 窮乏きゅうぼうpoverty; destitution; privation
- 窮余きゅうよextremity; desperation
Also read キョウ, きわめる, きわまる, きわまり, きわみ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“When you see this 'hole' crown on top of a kanji, imagine a roof with an opening. It tells you that the character involves a hollow space, a window, or something that is hidden deep inside a structure.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 穷 · traditional, as in Japanese · qióng
Japan keeps the traditional form 窮; mainland China simplifies it to 穷.
- Simplified
- 穷 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 窮 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qióng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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