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弱

JLPT N2 SL2 10 strokes Frequency: #958

Meanings

Weak, Frail

Radicals

弓

Decomposition

⿰⿹弓冫⿹弓冫

Etymology

Ideographic: Two shoots 弓 dying to frost 冫

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 10

Stroke Order

1 corner right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 dot bottom-to-top

5 rising bottom-to-top

6 corner right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

9 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

10 rising bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ジャク jaku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

よわ yowa

Words Using This Kanji

159 words total

Other (19 words)

ごく弱火ごくよわび

very low flame (cooking)

弱含み市況よわふくみしきょう

soft market

手弱女振りたおやめぶり

feminine poetic style (e.g. in the Man'yōshū)

衰弱死すいじゃくし

death from prostration

弱みを握るよわみをにぎる

to have (someone) by the short hairs

押しに弱いおしによわい

weak-willed

弱いものいじめよわいものいじめ

bullying (the weak)

弱毒化じゃくどくか

attenuation

病弱者びょうじゃくしゃ

sickly person

軟弱者なんじゃくもの

coward

ネット弱者ネットじゃくしゃ

person with limited Internet skills

強きをくじき弱きを助けるつよきをくじきよわきをたすける

help the weak and crush the strong

弱きを助け強きをくじくよわきをたすけつよきをくじく

help the weak and crush the strong

根拠薄弱こんきょはくじゃく

unsubstantiated

一強皆弱いっきょうかいじゃく

one strong, everyone else weak

ひ弱いひよわい

weak

か弱いかよわい

weak

胃弱いじゃく

dyspepsia

意志薄弱いしはくじゃく

weak-willed

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