ひんこん
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. poverty; penury; need; destitution
2. shortage; lack; want
Pitch accent
んこん
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
underclasses; poorest segment of the population; the poor
pauper; the needy; the poor
poor region; deprived area
Examples (14 in total)
They guard their families from poverty.
I was born into a poor family.
It was the increase in population that caused the poverty.