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Kanji Detail for 弱 - "weak, fragile, young"

  • Meaning

    弱 means "weak, fragile, young."

    1. Weak - Not strong; frail; feeble.

    2. Young - Youthful; junior; inexperienced.

    3. Vulnerable - Susceptible; easily affected.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    weak; frail

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    weak; fragile, delicate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    weak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    weak, fragile, delicate

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Opposite of strong. The firm is strong; the soft is weak. The flourishing is strong; the declining is weak. The victorious is strong; the defeated is weak. Those with surplus are strong; those lacking are weak. | Young is 弱. Twenty is called 弱冠. See (Book of Rites, Quli). Later, childhood was generally called 弱冠. | Loss. Such as 又弱一个. See (Zuo Zhuan).
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Sentences including

  • I am easily affected by cold weather.

  • Every man has his weak side.

  • She is no match for me.

  • I am concerned about his poor health.

  • His knowledge of english is poor.

  • She spoke in a weak voice.

  • This is her weak point.

  • I am a bad sailor.

  • He doesn't have a mind of his own.

  • He seems to have been in poor health when young.

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