Chinese Character Wiki
乏

fá

lack

Original meaning: 

crooked

Derived from 正, but with the line on top slanted to indicate "crooked (i.e. not straight)". The meaning later shifted to "lack".

Evolution

乏 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
乏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

乏  

fá

lack; poor; short of; tired

Most common words with 乏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

缺乏

to lack

乏味

tedious

不乏

there is no lack of

乏力

weak

匮乏

to be deficient in sth

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (0 verified)

眨 貶 贬

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

泛 砭 鴔

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

窆

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b](r)[o]p

bjop

fá

lack (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 10.9242% of movies

2012th most common character in movies

1399th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+4E4F

Shuowen

“乏，《春秋傳》曰：‘反正為乏。’”


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