欠

See also: 缺

Translingual

Stroke order

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Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #76, ⽋.

Derived characters

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		欠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 欠
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (欠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
坎	*kʰoːmʔ, *kʰoːms
扻	*kʰoːmʔ
砍	*kʰoːmʔ
芡	*ɡromʔ
欠	*kʰoms
杴	*qʰom
鍁	*qʰam

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 欠

1. to yawn
2. to lack; to be deficient
3. to owe
4. (Wuhan Mandarin) to miss somebody

Compounds

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Japanese

Shinjitai	欠
Kyūjitai	缺

Kanji

欠

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 缺)

1. lack, shortage
2. to be absent
3. vacancy

Usage notes

• In modern Japanese, 欠(けん) (ken) is used to spell words that etymologically feature 缺(けつ) (ketsu), for example 欠(けっ)席(せき) (kesseki) < 缺(けっ)席(せき) (kesseki). The kanji reading of 欠(けん) (ken) is uncommon and its most notable usage is in the word 欠(けん)缺(けつ) (kenketsu), which features both kanji.

Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: けん (ken)
• Kan’yō-on: けち (kechi); けつ (ketsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: かく (kaku, 欠く, Jōyō); かける (kakeru, 欠ける, Jōyō); あくび (akubi, 欠)

Compounds

Compounds

• 欠伸(あくび) (akubi)
• 欠員(けついん) (ketsuin)
• 欠格(けっかく) (kekkaku)
• 欠陥(けっかん) (kekkan)
• 欠勤(けっきん) (kekkin)
• 欠如(けつじょ) (ketsujo)

• 欠席(けっせき) (kesseki)
• 欠席裁判(けっせきさいばん) (kesseki saiban)
• 欠損(けっそん) (kesson)
• 欠番(けつばん) (ketsuban)
• 欠乏(けつぼう) (ketsubō), 欠乏(けつぼく) (ketsuboku)
• 欠缺(けんけつ) (kenketsu, “lack”)

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Korean

Hanja

欠 • (heum, gam) (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, heumgyeol, “deficiency, lack”)
• 흠신 (欠伸, heumsin, “yawn and stretch”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 欠 (khiếm)

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