乏

Meaning

乏 centers on a state of severe lack: destitution, scarcity, or being limited in resources. The meanings all point to not having enough.

• 貧乏びんぼう
  N2

  poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious

• 乏しいとぼしい
  N2

  meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up; lacking; scanty; poor

• 貧乏人びんぼうにん
  N1

  poor person; the poor

• 欠乏けつぼう
  N1

  deficiency; insufficiency; shortage; lack; want; dearth; scarcity

• 貧乏神びんぼうがみ

  god of poverty

• 欠乏症けつぼうしょう

  deficiency disease (e.g. protein, vitamin, etc.)

• 貧乏性びんぼうしょう

  parsimonious spirit; tendency to be frugal; inclination to scrimp and save

• 器用貧乏きようびんぼう

  jack of all trades, master of none

• 貧乏くじびんぼうくじ

  short end of the stick; short straw; unlucky number; blank; bad bargain

• 窮乏きゅうぼう
  N1

  poverty; destitution; privation; indigence; penury

• 耐乏たいぼう

  austerity; voluntary privation

• ビタミン欠乏症ビタミンけつぼうしょう

  vitamin deficiency disease; avitaminosis; hypovitaminosis

• 乏しきとぼしき

  poverty

• 乏しくなるとぼしくなる

  to get scarce; to run short

• 乏尿ぼうにょう

  oliguria

• 乏精子症ぼうせいししょう

  oligozoospermia; oligospermia

• 困苦欠乏こんくけつぼう

  hardships and privations

• 困苦窮乏こんくきゅうぼう

  hardships and privations

• 大漁貧乏たいりょうびんぼう

  impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch

• 学者貧乏がくしゃびんぼう

  good scholars are seldom rich

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