Illustration: In a small Japanese rental kitchen, an adult tips an open coin purse onto the low table; only two small coins fall out. Their partner carefully divides the last portion of rice between two bowls, adding a thin slice of pickled radish to each.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

貧びん乏ぼう

binbou

poor

Example sentences

  1. その頃ころ、私わたしは非常ひじょうに貧乏びんぼうだった。

    I was very poor in those days.

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  2. 私わたしは貧乏びんぼうです。

    I’m poor.

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  3. 彼かれは貧乏びんぼうだが正直しょうじきだ。

    He is poor, but honest.

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Kanji in 貧乏

  • 貧poverty; poorOnヒン・ビンKunまずしい
  • 乏destitution; scarceOnボウKunとぼしい・ともしい

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