Kanji List

劣

• kun: おと.る
• on: レツ
• meaning: inferiority, be inferior to, be worse
• words:

  Word	Reading	Meaning
  劣勢	れっせい	numerical inferiority
  劣る	おとる	to fall behind, to be inferior to
  劣悪	れつあく	inferiority, coarseness
  劣化	れっか	deterioration, degradation
  卑劣	ひれつ	mean, foul play, cowardly, base
  優劣	ゆうれつ	(relative) merits, superiority or inferiority, quality
  劣等感	れっとうかん	inferiority complex
  劣らず	おとらず	with the best of them, as the next fellow
  に劣らず	におとらず	just like, the same as, no different than
  見劣り	みおとり	unfavourable comparison, unfavorable comparison