Japanese Dictionary

Meaning of 虚弱(きょじゃく) in Japanese

虚弱
Kana Reading
きょじゃく
Romaji
kyojaku
Word Senses
  • Parts of speech
    adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi), noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
    Meaning
    feebleness; weakness; imbecility
    Example sentence
    彼は強健どころか実に虚弱だった。 So far from being robust, he was extremely weak.

Examples of 虚弱, きょじゃく in a sentence

Kanji in this word

虚 JLPT 1

11 strokes

void, emptiness, unpreparedness, crack, fissure, untruth

On'Yomi: キョ, コ

Kun'Yomi: むな.しい, うつ.ろ

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弱 JLPT 4

10 strokes

weak, frail

On'Yomi: ジャク

Kun'Yomi: よわ.い, よわ.る, よわ.まる, よわ.める

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