窮
Readings
Kana:
キュウ、キョウ、きわ.める、きわ.まる、きわ.まり、きわ.み
Romaji:
kyū, kyō, kiwa.meru, kiwa.maru, kiwa.mari, kiwa.mi
Meanings
hard up, destitute, suffer, perplexed, cornered
Stroke Diagram
Kanji Info
Stroke Count:
15
Radical Number:
116
Frequency:
1756
Grade:
8
Skip Pattern:
2-3-12
Korean Reading:
gung
Chinese Reading:
qiong2
Unicode:
7aae
JIS:
3567
Indexes
Halpern Index: 2358
Nelson Index: 3337
New Nelson Index: 4212
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 3m12.4
Four Corner Index: 3022.7
Guide to Remembering Index: 1152
Gakken Index: 1821
Japanese Names Index: 2573
Daikanwanjiten Index: 25593
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 8.0673
Remembering the kanji Index: 1326
Kanji Flashcards Index: 1598
Kodansha Compact Index: 1457
Kanji in Context Index: 1675
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 1525
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 2078
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 1338
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 1424
Essential Kanji Index: 1259
Kodansha Kanji Index: 2983
Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 752
Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 1787
Words
窮地
(きゅうち)
dilemma; predicament
窮乏
(きゅうぼう)
poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
窮状
(きゅうじょう)
distress; wretched condition
貧窮化
(ひんきゅうか)
impoverishment
窮余の策
(きゅうよのさく)
desperate measure
困窮
(こんきゅう)
poverty; distress
貧窮
(ひんきゅう)
great poverty
窮屈
(きゅうくつ)
narrow; tight; cramped; formal; stiff; strict; ceremonious; rigid; constrained; uncomfortable; tight (e.g. finances)
極める
(きわめる)
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
窮理
(きゅうり)
study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship