kuì, guì
empty, lacking
Phonosemantic compound. 匚 represents the meaning and 贵 represents the sound. Simplified from 匱.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 匮
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to be deficient in sth | ||
to lack | ||
to be deficient in sth | ||
to be short of sth | ||
exhausted |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3727th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+532E |
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