Chinese Character 虧 Meanings and components.

Form

虧

Meaning

虧 meaning[3] in English

Deficiency.

Deficit.

Luckily.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 虧 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (雐) , and archaic variant of … (亐)

Its radical[1] is: 虍 (hu1) which means: Stripes Of A Tiger, 'Tiger' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 141), .虍hu1stripes of …

In cangjie it is written with YGMMS

How to write 虧

To write虧kui1deficiency you should write a combination of 雐hu1 , 亐yu2archaic variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

雐 + 亐 = 虧

虧 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 虧 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 虧, looks as follow:

虧
Pinyin:kui1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Deficiency . Deficit . Luckily . It'S Lucky That... . (Often Ironically) Fancy That...
雐
Pinyin:hu1 Shape:吕
虍
Pinyin:hu1
Meaning[3]: Stripes Of A Tiger . 'Tiger' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 141)
隹
Pinyin:zhui1
Meaning[3]: Short-Tailed Bird
亐
Pinyin:yu2 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 于[Yu2]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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