See also: 贫弱

Chinese edit

poor
 
weak; feeble; young
weak; feeble; young; inferior
trad. (貧弱)
simp. (贫弱)

Pronunciation edit


Adjective edit

貧弱

  1. poor and weak; impoverished and decrepit

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
ひん
Grade: 5
じゃく
Grade: 2
kan’on

Etymology edit

Probably from Middle Chinese compound 貧弱 (MC bin nyak, literally “poor + weak”). Compare modern Mandarin 貧弱贫弱 (pínruò, “poor and weak”).

Alternatively, may have been coined in Japan of Middle Chinese-derived elements (hin, poor) + (jaku, weak).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

(ひん)(じゃく) (hinjakuひんじやく (finzyaku)?-na (adnominal (ひん)(じゃく) (hinjaku na), adverbial (ひん)(じゃく) (hinjaku ni))

  1. poor, feeble, scanty
    (じょう)(きょう)は、(かれ)(ひん)(じゃく)()()では(ひょう)(げん)できるものではなかった。
    Jōkyō wa, kare no hinjaku na goi de wa hyōgen dekiru mono de wa na katta.
    With his poor vocabulary, he/she was unable to explain the situation in words.
    (literally, “The situation was not a thing that could be described in his/her poor vocabulary.”)

Inflection edit

Antonyms edit

Noun edit

(ひん)(じゃく) (hinjakuひんじやく (finzyaku)?

  1. poorness, meagerness, scantiness

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011) 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

貧弱 (binyak) (hangeul 빈약)

  1. Hanja form? of 빈약 (poorness; meagreness).