窮
窮 — gung
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 다할/궁할 궁
- Romanization
- gung
- English
- poor, destitute, impoverished
- Mandarin
- qióng
- Japanese on'yomi
- キュウ, グ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- きわ.める きわ.まる きわ.まり きわ.み
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,756 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 穴 (116, 10 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7AAE
Parts that make up 窮
How 窮 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 窮 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 穴, 躬.
Korean example words with 窮
- 궁기窮氣 Korean gloss: 궁한 기색
- 궁유窮儒 Korean gloss: 곤궁한 선비
- 궁핍窮乏 Korean gloss: 몹시 가난함
- 빈궁貧窮 Korean gloss: 가난하고 궁색함
- 궁태窮態 Korean gloss: 어렵고 궁한 상태
- 궁세窮勢 Korean gloss: 곤궁한 형세나 형편
- 궁도窮盜 Korean gloss: 몹시 궁한 지경의 도적
- 궁민窮民 Korean gloss: 생활이 어렵고 궁한 백성
- 궁촌窮村 Korean gloss: 가난하여 살기 어려운 마을
- 궁증窮症 Korean gloss: 궁기가 생겨 먹고 싶은 증상
- 무궁無窮 Korean gloss: 공간이나 시간 따위가 끝이 없음
- 궁항窮巷 Korean gloss: 궁한 처지를 비유적으로 이르는 말
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 窮
- 窮地きゅうち dilemma; predicament
- 窮状きゅうじょう distress; wretched condition
- 窮屈きゅうくつ narrow; tight; cramped
- 困窮こんきゅう poverty; need; destitution
- 窮乏きゅうぼう poverty; destitution; privation
- 窮余きゅうよ extremity; desperation
- 窮境きゅうきょう predicament
- 窮迫きゅうはく financial difficulty; distress
- 窮民きゅうみん poor people; the poor
- 貧窮ひんきゅう great poverty
- 無窮むきゅう eternity; infinitude; immortality
- 窮死きゅうし dying in miserable circumstances
Other hanja read “궁”
Other hanja with radical 穴
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