This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

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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