Illustration: Five friends sit around a low apartment dining table, each with a filled bowl ready to eat. Four hold pairs of chopsticks, while the fifth looks at their empty place and then into a completely empty chopstick holder. The host has turned the holder upside down to check, but nothing falls out.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ足そく

fusoku

shortage, lack

Example sentences

食糧しょくりょうが不足ふそくしている。
Food has been in short supply.
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住宅じゅうたく不足ふそくは深刻しんこくだ。
The housing shortage is very acute.
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彼かれは酸素さんそ不足ふそくで死しんだ。
He died from lack of oxygen.
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Kanji in 不足

不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
足leg; footOnソクKunあし・たりる・たる

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