弱 Kanji – weak
The Japanese kanji 弱 can mean weak, frail.
Meaning and Readings
How is 弱 read?
弱 has the onyomi reading ジャク and the kunyomi readings よわい, よわる, よわまる, よわめる.
In romaji, these readings can be written as jaku, yowai, yowaru, yowamaru, yowameru.
Common Japanese Words Using 弱
These common Japanese words contain 弱. Select linked kanji to explore their meanings and readings.
- か弱い（かよわい） — weak, feeble, delicate, frail, helpless
- 虚弱（きょじゃく） — feebleness, weakness, imbecility
- 強弱（きょうじゃく） — strength and weakness, (degree of) strength
- 弱（じゃく） — a little less than, a little under, slightly fewer than
- 弱い（よわい） — weak, frail, delicate, tender, unskilled, weak (wine)
- 弱まる（よわまる） — to abate, to weaken, to be emaciated, to be dejected, to be perplexed
- 弱める（よわめる） — to weaken
- 弱る（よわる） — to weaken, to grow weak, to wane, to decline (of one's health)
- 弱音（よわね） — feeble complaint, whine
- 弱冠（じゃっか ん） — twenty years of age