kuī

deficit, lose

Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
雐 sound component

  Sound component

  

a type of bird

亏 meaning component

  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

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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

deficit

幸亏

fortunately

吃亏

to suffer losses