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Kanji Detail for 劣 - "inferior, lesser, poor"
劣
- Meaning
劣 means "inferior, lesser, poor."
Inferior - Weak in strength; not measuring up.
Low - Poor quality; base.
Barely - Slightly; just barely.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
inferiority; be inferior to; be worse
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
bad, inferior; slightly
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
inferior
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
low-quality, inferior, bad
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Weak. Opposite of 優 (superior). Like saying insufficient. | Base. Such as 庸劣 (mediocre), 卑劣 (despicable), all strongly deprecating terms.
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Sentences including 劣
He is as tall as any boy in his class.
It is mean of you to tell a lie about it.
She is no less beautiful than her mother.
She is not less beautiful than her sister.
He is as rich as any man in this town.
She is no less pretty than her sister.
He works as hard as any other student.
He is much inferior to me in english.
She is no less beautiful than her mother.
He ran as fast as any boy in the team.