欠

See also 缺

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

欠 (radical 76 欠+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓人 (NO), four-corner 2780₂)

1. yawn
2. lack, be deficient
3. owe
4. KangXi radical number 76

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/欠
• 吹 飲 (飮, 饮)

References

• KangXi: page 565, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15991
• Dae Jaweon: page 953, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2133, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6B20

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Cantonese

Hanzi

欠 (jyutping him3, Yale him3)

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Hakka

Hanzi

欠 (POJ khìam, Guangdong k'iam⁵, Hagfa Pinyim kiam4)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

欠 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: けつ (ketsu) けん (ken)
• Kun: かける (kakeru), あくび (akubi)

Compounds

欠員 欠格 欠陥

欠勤 欠如 欠席

欠席裁判 欠損 欠番

欠乏 欠伸

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Korean

Hanja

欠 (hangeul 흠, 감, revised heum, gam, McCune-Reischauer hŭm, kam, Yale hum, kam), another original reading: 검 (geom)

1. 하품 (hapum) yawn
2. 흉 (hyung) defect, deficiency
3. 빚 (bij, bit) debt, delinquency

Compounds

• 흠결 (欠缺, heum-gyeol) deficiency, lack
• 흠신 (欠伸, heum-sin) yawn and stretch

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

欠 (pinyin qiàn (qian4), quē (que1), Wade-Giles ch'ien⁴)

Compounds

欠安 欠火 欠佳

欠据 欠款 欠情, 欠情儿

欠少 欠伸 欠身 (qiànshēn)

欠条, 欠条儿 哈欠 (hāqian)

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Vietnamese

Han character

欠 (khiếm)