ひんこん
Meanings
Noun
1. 貧乏で生活に困っていること。
2. 大事なものが乏しいこと。不十分で低劣なこと。
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
women with low disposable incomes; (lit.) poverty girls
poverty rate
poverty line
absolute poverty
period poverty; menstrual poverty
poverty of stimulus
poverty in spite of having a high income
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.