Illustration: In a worn but carefully kept rental kitchen, a parent divides the last small portion of rice between two bowls, adding thin vegetable soup from a nearly empty pot. An open purse on the low table contains only a few coins.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

貧ひん困こん

hinkon

poverty

Example sentences

人々ひとびとは貧困ひんこんに苦くるしんだ。
People were ground down by poverty.
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貧困ひんこんはしばしば犯罪はんざいの原因げんいんとなる。
Poverty often engenders crime.
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彼かれらは家族かぞくを貧困ひんこんから守まもる。
They guard their families from poverty.
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Kanji in 貧困

貧poverty; poorOnヒン・ビンKunまずしい
困quandary; become distressedOnコンKunこまる

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