Illustration: In a cramped but carefully kept apartment, a parent divides the last small portion of rice between two bowls. An open purse contains only a few coins, and the nearby food cupboard holds little beyond an almost empty rice container. Both parent and child wear clean clothes with visible repairs.

JLPT N3i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

貧まずしい

mazushii

poor, needy

Example sentences

貧まずしい人ひとを軽蔑けいべつするな。
Don’t look down on the poor.
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彼かれは貧まずしい。
He is poor.
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彼かれは貧まずしいが正直しょうじきだ。
He’s poor, but he’s honest.
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Kanji in 貧

貧poverty; poorOnヒン・ビンKunまずしい

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