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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