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Mythic Mandarin

亏 (kuī): meaning and stroke order

亏 (kuī) means to lose (money); to have a deficit, to be deficient, to treat unfairly.

亏

Simplified
亏
Traditional
虧
Pinyin
kuī

Stroke order of 亏

亏

  • kuī to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 虧

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 亏

  1. kuī Traditional 虧
    • to lose (money); to have a deficit
    • to be deficient
    • to treat unfairly
    • luckily; fortunately; thanks to
    • (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)

Radical and structure

亏
Radical 二 (Kangxi radical 7) · 3 strokes · 一 on top, 丂 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 亏

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).