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窮屈 (きゅうくつ): narrow, tight, formal — Japanese vocabulary

窮屈 is read きゅうくつ and means "narrow, tight, formal". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

窮屈

Reading
きゅうくつ · kyuukutsu
Translation
narrow, tight, formal
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
きゅうくつが

Example

列車のコンパートメントはすぐ窮屈になる。

れっしゃのコンパートメントはすぐきゅうくつになる。

Train compartments soon get cramped.

Kanji in this word

  • 窮 — Hard Up, Destitute, Suffer
  • 屈 — bend, yield

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