虧 (kuī)
to lose money/deficiency/luckily
How 虧 is written
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 虍 — tiger stripes
- Traditional
- 虧
- Simplified
- 亏
Components
- 虍 tiger stripes
- 隹 small bird
- 二 two
- ㇉ N/A
Common words using 虧
- 吃虧 chīkuī
- to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out
- 幸虧 xìngkuī
- fortunately; luckily
- 多虧 duōkuī
- thanks to; luckily
- 虧待 kuīdài
- to treat sb unfairly
- 虧心事 kuīxīnshì
- shameful deed
- 虧損 kuīsǔn
- deficit; (financial) loss
- 虧本 kuīběn
- to make a loss
- 虧欠 kuīqiàn
- to fall short of; to have a deficit; deficit
- 功虧一簣 gōngkuīyīkuì
- lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful; to fail through lack of a final effort; to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
- 啞巴虧 yǎbakuī
- pent up unspoken grievances; suffering not willingly or possibly spoken of
- 扭虧 niǔkuī
- to make good a deficit; to reverse a loss
- 暗虧 ànkuī
- hidden loss (finance)
虧 in a sentence
這筆生意讓他虧了不少錢。
Zhè bǐ shēngyì ràng tā kuīle bùshǎo qián.
“This business deal made him lose quite a bit of money.”
How common is 虧?
虧 is the 1,736th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96% of all running text.
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