Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

1211 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: poverty, poor

Kunyomi: まず.しい

Onyomi: ヒン ビン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: かい

Meaning: shell

Strokes: 7

Examples

Examples with audio

血(ひんけつ)   anemia

困(ひんこん)   poverty

富(ひんぷ)   rich and poor

弱な(ひんじゃくな)   meagre, insubstantial

乏な(びんぼうな)   poor

相な(ひんそうな)   seedy-looking

乏人(びんぼうにん)   the poor

しい(まずしい)   poor

Onyomi Examples

ヒン poverty, penury, want, need, insufficiency, shortage, deficiency

ヒンケツ anemia, anaemia

セイヒン honourable poverty, honorable poverty

ゴクヒン destitution

ビンボウ poverty-stricken, destitute, poor, penurious

乏人 ビンボウニン poor person, pauper, the poor, the indigent

Kunyomi Examples

しい まずしい poor, needy, lacking (quantity and quality-wise), poor, scanty, skimpy, slight, inadequate