窮 – Kanji details

reach a limit

hole

one's body

bow (weapon)

narrow; tight; formal; stiff; constrained; uncomfortable

dilemma; predicament

to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty

このパジャマはもうトムには窮きゅう屈くつそうね。新あたらしいの買かおうね。

These pajamas look like they'd be too tight on Tom now. Let's buy some new ones.

彼かれはそんな窮きゅう乏ぼうの中なかでどうやって暮くらしていたのか。

How did he make his living in such poverty?

列れっ車しゃのコンパートメントはすぐ窮きゅう屈くつになる。

Train compartments soon get cramped.

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