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窮乏 (きゅうぼう): poverty — Japanese vocabulary

窮乏 is read きゅうぼう and means "poverty". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

窮乏

Reading
きゅうぼう · kyuubou
Translation
poverty
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
きゅうぼうが

Example

飢饉が人々にひどい窮乏をもたらした。

ききんがひとびとにひどいきゅうぼうをもたらした。

Famine caused great distress among the people.

Kanji in this word

  • 窮 — Hard Up, Destitute, Suffer
  • 乏 — scarce, lacking

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