kuī

Traditional: 虧

HSK 5

亏 (kuī) is a Chinese word meaning “to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly”.

Meanings

  1. 1to lose (money); to have a deficit
  2. 2to be deficient
  3. 3to treat unfairly
  4. 4luckily; fortunately; thanks to
  5. 5(used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)
Part of speech
verb

Related words

多亏thanks to幸亏fortunately亏欠to have a deficit; to be in the red吃亏to suffer losses亏待to treat sb unfairly亏损deficit功亏一篑lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful亏本to make a loss亏空in debt亏心事shameful deed盈亏profit and loss亏得fortunately

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