| 薄れる | うすれる | to fade, to become dim |
| 薄い | うすい | thin; pale, light; watery, dilute, sparse; weak (taste, etc.); slim (probability, etc.), small |
| 希薄 | きはく | thin (e.g. air), lean, rarified, diluted, sparse, weak, rarefied |
| 精神薄弱 | せいしんはくじゃく | mental retardation, mentally retarded |
| 肉薄 | にくはく | come close to, closing in upon, pressing hard (on the enemy), challenge |
| 薄暗い | うすぐらい | dim, gloomy |
| 手薄 | てうす | short of hands, insufficient |
| 薄 | すすき | Japanese pampas grass (Miscanthus sinensis), silver grass, zebra grass |
| 薄膜 | うすまく, はくまく | thin film |
| 薄力粉 | はくりきこ | wheat flour of low viscosity, weak flour |
