Phonosemantic compound. 雐 represents the sound and 亏 represents the meaning.
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Historical Evolution
虧
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
虧
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
虧
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
虧
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
虧
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
虧
Regular
Modern
Chinese
亏 / 虧 [kuī]
deficiency; deficit; luckily; it's lucky that...; (often ironically) fancy that...
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (39)
多亏 [duōkuī] #4,292
thanks to
亏损 [kuīsǔn] #26,447
deficit
幸亏 [xìngkuī] #10,027
fortunately
吃亏 [chīkuī] #18,668
to suffer losses
亏欠 [kuīqiàn] #18,503
to fall short of
亏本 [kuīběn] #33,771
to make a loss
亏待 [kuīdài] #23,937
to treat sb unfairly
功亏一篑 [gōngkuīyīkuì] #27,325
lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful
盈亏 [yíngkuī] #48,074
profit and loss
扭亏 [niǔkuī] #20,668
to make good a deficit
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