亏 kuī — to be short of; to lack
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Traditional:
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kuī kui1
Basic definition
verb
Detailed explanation
verb
- (形声。从亏,( hū)声。本义:气损)
- damage of vital energy e.g 亏柔 · 亏退
- be short of e.g 亏欠 亏失 · 亏累 · 亏紊 · 亏替
- loss;wear and tear;damage;harm e.g 亏缺 · 亏污 · 亏误 · 亏输
- lose;be defeated
- ruin;destroy;damage e.g 亏损 亏污 · 亏害 · 亏图 · 亏名
- reduce e.g 亏成 · 亏全
- violate e.g 亏负亏心事 亏制
- differ from
- loss e.g 吃亏自负盈亏 使出版家受亏
- wane e.g 亏盈 · 月满则亏
adverb
- luckily e.g 亏杀 · 亏不尽
- fortunately e.g 亏不尽 · 亏你提起这件事, 否则我就忘了
- 作反语用,表示斥责或讥讽。如:这样的事,真亏你做得出来
Related words
- 亏损 loss; deficit
- 吃亏 to suffer losses; to be at a disadvantage
- 幸亏 fortunately; luckily
- 扭亏 to turn a loss into a profit; to reverse deficit
- 多亏 thanks to; luckily
- 亏得 fortunately/luckily/(sarcastic) fancy that, how fortunate!
- 扭亏为盈 to turn from loss into profit; to reverse losses
- 自负盈亏 responsible for its own profits and losses
- 盈亏 profit and loss; gains and losses
- 减亏 to reduce losses
- 亏空 in debt/in the red/in deficit
- 亏本 to lose money; to run at a loss
- 亏待 to treat unfairly; to let down
- 扭亏增盈 to turn losses into profits
- 亏心事 shameful deed
- 功亏一篑 to fall short by one basket; near miss
- 理亏 in the wrong
- 眼前亏 an immediate loss or hardship one is facing now
- 吃眼前亏 to suffer an immediate, obvious loss
- 亏欠 to be in debt; deficit