- 薄い【うすい】 - thin, pale, light, faint, watery, thin, dilute, weak (taste, etc.), little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence), slim (probability, etc.), small, sparse, patchy, scattered 
- 薄暗い【うすぐらい】 - dim, gloomy 
- 軽薄【けいはく】 - frivolous, flippant, superficial, shallow, trifling, insincere 
- 薄める【うすめる】 - to dilute, to water down 
- 薄まる【うすまる】 - to become weak 
- 薄着【うすぎ】 - being lightly dressed 
- 薄弱【はくじゃく】 - feebleness, weakness, weak 
- 希薄【きはく】 - thin (air), weak (liquid), dilute, sparse (population), rarefied, lacking (enthusiasm, consideration, substance, etc.), insubstantial, deficient, tenuous (link) 
- 薄れる【うすれる】 - to fade, to become dim 
- 薄らぐ【うすらぐ】 - to become thin, to fade, to grow pale 
- 精神薄弱【せいしんはくじゃく】 - feeble-mindedness, intellectual disability 
- 手薄【てうす】 - shorthanded, short of hands, undermanned, insufficient (stock, money, etc.), in short supply, low 
- 肉薄【にくはく】 - closing in on (the enemy, first place, etc.), coming close to, pressing hard, pressing hard (e.g. with a question), taking to task, grilling 
- 薄膜【うすまく】 - thin film 
- 薄切り【うすぎり】 - thin slice, slicing thin 
- 品薄【しなうす】 - shortage of stock, scarcity of goods 
- 薄板【うすいた】 - laminate, veneer 
- 薄日【うすび】 - soft light 
- 薄曇り【うすぐもり】 - slightly cloudy 
- 薄っぺら【うすっぺら】 - very thin, flimsy, cheap, shallow