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虧

kuī

deficit, lose

Phonosemantic compound. 雐 represents the sound and 亏 represents the meaning.

Components
雐 sound component

雐  Sound component

hū

  

a type of bird

亏 meaning component

亏  Meaning component

kuī

  

deficit, lose

Evolution

虧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
虧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
虧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

亏 (虧) 

kuī

lose, fail; damage; deficient; deficiency; deficit; luckily; it's lucky that...; (often ironically) fancy that...

Most common words with 虧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

多亏

thanks to

亏损

deficit

亏

deficit

幸亏

fortunately

吃亏

to suffer losses

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷʰ(r)aj

khjwe

kuī

diminish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.1416% of movies

2003rd most common character in movies

1738th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

亏

Unicode

U+8667

Shuowen

“虧，气損也。从亏，雐聲。，虧或从兮。”


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