Word details
가난
- Pronunciation
- 가난
- Part of speech
- noun
- Vocabulary level
- intermediate
- Derivative
- 가난하다, 가난히
poverty; want; destitution
One's state of having insufficient money or this state itself.
Proverbs
가난이 죄다
Being poor is being guilty
Poverty drives people to commit crimes or makes them suffer misfortunes.
가난 구제는 나라님[임금님]도 못한다
Even a king can't relieve one's poverty
Not even a king can help the poor improve their condition.