- 困る【こまる】 - to be troubled, to have difficulty, to be in a fix, to be at a loss, to be stumped, to be embarrassed, to be bothered, to be inconvenienced, to be annoyed, to be badly off, to be hard up, to be in straitened circumstances 
- 困難【こんなん】 - difficulty, hardship, trouble, distress, infeasibility, inability (to carry out) 
- 貧困【ひんこん】 - poverty, penury, need, destitution, shortage, lack, want 
- 困惑【こんわく】 - bewilderment, perplexity, embarrassment, discomfiture, bafflement 
- 困窮【こんきゅう】 - poverty, need, destitution, having great difficulty with, struggling greatly with, being in distress 
- 困り果てる【こまりはてる】 - to be at a complete loss, to be without recourse, to be completely stymied, to have absolutely no idea what to do