Practice JLPTMeaning
か弱い (かよわい, kayowai) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “frail; weak”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
か 弱い 男性はあまりもてない
Weak men are not so popular.
幸福はか 弱い 花である。
Happiness is a delicate flower.
彼女の 子どもはか 弱かった。
Her child was in delicate health.「
あたしはドロシー、小さくてか弱い者です。
"I am Dorothy, the Small and Meek.
そのすじは、僕にはいささか弱いように思えた。
This argument seemed weak enough to me.
かわりにいたのは、立派な出自を忘れたか弱い生き物たちと、そしてわたしが恐れたあの白い代物たちです。
Instead were these frail creatures who had forgotten their high ancestry, and the white Things of which I went in terror.
そして、人間という大きな流れからの、この最後のか弱い細流たる人々に対し、心底から哀れみを感じたのです。
and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity.
彼女はのぼりで頭をかがめ、か弱い肩を重荷を負ったように曲げ、スカートをぴったり体に巻きつけ、ボーイの後から昇った。
She mounted the stairs behind the porter, her head bowed in the ascent, her frail shoulders curved as with a burden, her skirt girt tightly about her.
負圧通路１３８の負圧が設定値より強いか弱いかに応じて、負圧監視装置１８０の可動部１８２を構成する圧力スイッチがオン，オフし、それによって発光ダイオードが点灯あるいは消灯する。
A pressure switch constituting a movable part 182 of a negative pressure monitoring device 180 is turned on and off depending on whether the negative pressure of the negative pressure passage 138 is stronger or weaker than a set value and thus a light emitting diode is lighted or put out.
女はか弱いように見えて, いざとなると男よりタフなのである. Women look weak and delicate, but in a pinch they often prove themselves to be tougher than men.大陸からショウガとともに持ち込まれた際、香りの強いほうを「兄香（せのか）」、弱いほうを「妹香（めのか）」と呼んだ。
When Shoga (ginger) and Myoga were imported from the Asian continent, those with a strong fragrance were called Senoka (strong fragrance) and those with a weak fragrance were called Menoka (weak fragrance).