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What 虧 means

to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly; luckily; fortunately; thanks to; (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)

Ideographic: A tiger 虍 mauling a bird 隹; 亏 also provides the pronunciation

Made of 雐 + 亏

Words with 虧

• 多虧duō kuīthanks to; luckily
• 幸虧xìng kuīfortunately; luckily
• 吃虧chī kuīto suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately
• 虧欠kuī qiànto have a deficit; to be in the red; to owe
• 虧待kuī dàito treat sb unfairly
• 虧損kuī sǔndeficit; (financial) loss
• 虧本kuī běnto make a loss
• 吃大虧chī dà kuīto cost one dearly; to end disastrously; to pay bitterly
• 得虧děi kuīluckily; fortunately
• 扭虧niǔ kuīto make good a deficit; to reverse a loss
• 暗虧àn kuīhidden loss (finance)
• 月虧yuè kuīwaning moon; to wane

虧 in a sentence

• 多虧了冷夏，啤酒賣的不好。

  duō kuī le lěng xià ， pí jiǔ mài de bù hǎo 。

  Thanks to a cold summer, beer has sold poorly.

• 多虧了順風，我們很快就到了那個小島。

  duō kuī le shùn fēng ， wǒ mén hěn kuài jiù dào le nà gè xiǎo dǎo 。

  Thanks to the favorable wind, we soon reached the island.

Characters that sound like 虧

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