乏

Translingual

Etymology

Originally Ideogrammic compound (會意): 止 (“foot”) + 一 – a foot (止) running into a wall or barrier (一), indicating lack, incomplete. Compare 正 (“complete”).

Present form cursive simplification: 止 simplified to 之, 一 changed to 丿; compare semi-cursive 疋.

Han character

乏 (radical 4 丿+4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈弓人 (HINO), four-corner 2030₇, composition ⿱丿之)

1. lack
2. poor

Related characters

• 之, 疋, 正

References

• KangXi: page 82, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 133
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 34, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4E4F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

乏 (Yale fat6)

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Japanese

Kanji

乏 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: とぼしい (toboshii)

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Korean

Hanja

乏
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 핍 (revised: pip, McCune-Reischauer: p'ip)

• Name (hangeul): 모자랄 (revised: mojaral, McCune-Reischauer: mojaral)

References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 乏

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Mandarin

Hanzi

乏 (pinyin fá (fa2), luò (luo4), yào (yao4), yuè (yue4), Wade-Giles fa², lo⁴, yao⁴, yüeh⁴)

Compounds

• 缺乏

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Middle Chinese

Han character

乏 (bhiæp)

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Vietnamese

Han character

乏 (phạp)