乏しい (とぼしい): meager, scarce, hard up, poor — Japanese vocabulary
乏しい is read とぼしい and means "meager, scarce, hard up, poor". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.
乏しい
- Reading
- とぼしい · toboshii
- Translation
- meager, scarce, hard up, poor
- Level
- JLPT N1
- Pitch accent
- とぼしいが
Example
彼はいつもお金が乏しい。
かれはいつもおかねがとぼしい。
He's always short of money.
Kanji in this word
- 乏 — scarce, lacking
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