Meaning of 貧困 in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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貧困JLPT 1
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Kana Readingひんこん
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Romajihinkon
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi), noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no`
- Meaning
- poverty; lack
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Example Sentences
貧困, ひんこん used in context
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Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty, and oppression.
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本来は、貧困層の女性や子供に医療保護を提供するために創設された制度である、アメリカ低所得者医療扶助制度が、今日では、その予算の約３分の１を老人に費やしている。
Medicaid, a program originally created to provide medical care for poverty-level women and children, today spends almost a third of its budget on elderly people.
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Poverty is not a bar to happiness.
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Want is the mother of industry.
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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Poverty is still the major cause of crime.
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