貧

音読おんよみ: ヒン・ビン

訓読くんよみ: まずしい

画数かくすう: 11

部首ぶしゅ: かい(貝)

Meaning

Poverty / Poor / Meager / Lacking

  • 貧乏びんぼう — poverty
  • 貧民ひんみん — poor people
  • 貧血ひんけつ — anemia
  • 貧弱ひんじゃく — poor; meager
  • 貧困ひんこん — poverty; destitution

The radical 貝 (money) reflects value or wealth, and the phonetic component 分 (divide) implies dispersion. Together, the idea is “lack of money” or “resources being spread thin” — thus, poverty.

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