Word

窮地

きゅうち
dilemma; predicament
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困窮

こんきゅう
poverty; distress
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窮乏

きゅうぼう
poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury
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貧窮

ひんきゅう
great poverty
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窮状

きゅうじょう
distress; wretched condition
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窮屈

きゅうくつ
narrow; tight; cramped; formal; stiff; strict; ceremonious; rigid; constrained; uncomfortable; tight (e.g. finances)
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貧窮化

ひんきゅうか
impoverishment
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極める

究める、窮める
v1
vt
きわめる
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
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窮余の策

きゅうよのさく
desperate measure
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窮理

究理
きゅうり
study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship