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薄弱 (はくじゃく, hakujaku) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “feebleness, weakness, weak”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 8
彼は 意志が 薄弱です
His will is weak.
しかし私は意志薄弱です。
I have no will power.
こいつは 意志 薄弱な 男です。
He's a weak-willed man.
しかし、そうした土地の所有権に係る法的根拠は極めて薄弱であり、国衙によって収公されるおそれが強かった。
However, the legal basis of their property rights was fragile and it was possible for kokuga (provincial government offices) to seize the properties.
六条天皇は下級貴族の伊岐致遠（義盛）の娘から生まれ、母方の身分があまりに低かったため、後見は薄弱であった。
Emperor Rokujo was born from the daughter of the lower-ranking noble IKI no Muneto (Yoshimori), and the emperor's maternal relatives were so low in their social position that they could never look after the emperor.
この一方で、新説の提示によって、三像それぞれの像主を判断する客観的根拠もなく頼朝・重盛・光能がとりあえず比定されているなど、通説の論拠の薄弱さも浮き彫りとなった。
On the other hand, the weakness of the evidence for the popular theory was also revealed; the three portraits are just considered as Yoritomo, Shigemori, and Mitsuyoshi without any objective evidence to identify the figures of these portraits.
なお、天明5年（1785年）に津久井尚重の著した『南朝（皇胤）紹運録』（『南朝編年記略』の付録）は全くの別系図で、南朝史料としての価値も極めて薄弱な俗書に過ぎない。
"Nancho (Koin) Joun roku" (a supplement of "Nancho Hennenkiryaku") written by Naoshige TSUKUI in 1785 is a totally different genealogy and just a vulgar book whose value as a historical data for Nancho (Southern Court) is extremely low.
論拠が薄弱だ[誤っている]. You are arguing on tenuous [false] grounds.その主張は根拠薄弱だ. The claim is based on flimsy [tenuous] grounds.この推量は根拠が十分である. This conjecture is well [ill] founded.七歳で母を失い、父冷泉上皇は精神病を患っていたため、その後見は薄弱であった。
He lost his mother when he was seven, his father (Emperor Reizei) had a mental problem, and his guardian was feeble.