僅か – Vocabulary details

僅わずか

Meanings

Adjective (な)

Adjective (の)

Usually written in kana

1. a little; a few; small; slight; trifling; meagre; meager; narrow (margin)

わずかな痛いたみが喉のどに走はしった。A slight pain shot through my throat.

Adverb

Usually written in kana

2. only; just; merely; no more than

わずか四よ人にんで、何なにができるというのだ？What can just four people possibly do?

Alt. forms

Kanji used

僅

trifle

Pitch accent

わ

ずか

Used in: 2299

Used in vocabulary (8 in total)

ほんの僅わずか

small amount; jot; nothing much; (to a) slight degree; wee bit

ごく僅わずか

derisory; negligible; minimal; nominal; imperceptible

残のこり僅わずか

(with) only a few left; (with) little left

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Examples (8 in total)

情じょう報ほうは僅わずかずつ集あつまっていく。

Information accumulates little by little.

僅わずかに力ちからが抜ぬけるような感かん覚かくを覚おぼえる。

I feel a sensation as if my strength is slightly draining away.

方ほう々ぼうの農のう家かの戸とが僅わずかに開あいていた。

Here and there, the doors of the farmhouses stood slightly open.

唇くちびるの間あいだから僅わずかに白しろい歯はが見みえた。

A glimpse of white teeth was visible between the lips.

僅わずかな衝しょう撃げきを受うけるでしょうが、身しん体たいに影えい響きょうはありません。

You will experience a slight impact, but it will have no effect on your body.

名な前まえを呼よばれて、店てん主しゅが僅わずかに警けい戒かいを強つよめた。

Called by name, the shopkeeper grew slightly more wary.

時じ間かんに縛しばられない野や球きゅうなら、まだ可か能のう性せいは僅わずかにある。

Baseball isn't bound by a clock, so there's still a slim chance.

次ついで遠とおざかる足あし音おとと、扉とびらの閉しまる音おとが僅わずかに聞きこえた。