赤貧

せきひん

Meanings

1. Noun, の-adjective extreme poverty

Kanji

• 赤 red. Read as セキ.
• 貧 poor. Read as ヒン.

Example sentences

• 赤貧戸口に至らば、恋は窓より飛び去る。
  When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.

Words containing 赤貧

• 赤貧洗うが如し (せきひんあらうがごとし) extremely indigent

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