乏 is the Japanese kanji for scarce, destitution, limited. It is written with 4 strokes and appears at JLPT level N1. Its kun reading is とぼ.しい、とも.しい and its on reading is ボウ.
Stroke order
Words with 乏
- 乏しいmeagre, meager, scarce
- 貧乏poverty-stricken, destitute, poor
- 欠乏deficiency, insufficiency, shortage
- 貧乏人poor person, the poor
- 窮乏poverty, destitution, privation
- 耐乏austerity, voluntary privation
Practice 乏 with brush strokes, spaced repetition and quizzes in the app.