虧

kui̅ = ku + ei1

deficiency / deficit / luckily / it's lucky that... / (often ironically) fancy that...

亏 = 二 + ㇉ : Mnemonic symbol: a lucky leprechaun. The leprechaun (亏) wants to propose to Karl Koala (ku) and uses the romantic moment in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1). Unfortunately he has no ring, so he uses a capacitor (二) of which he bent the legs to build a ring. He's quite lucky (亏), because right after he gives the ring to Karl, a lightning bolt (㇉) strikes and hits poor Karl Koala. Had the leprechaun kept the ring, the lightning bolt would have hit him instead.

虧 character breakdown

The character 虧 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 虧 as component

虧 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 虧

thanks to / luckily

fortunately / luckily

to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately

lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)

profit and loss / waxing and waning

in the wrong

to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering

luckily / fortunately

to make good a deficit / to reverse a loss

to get into the black; to become profitable

hidden loss (finance)

waning moon / to wane

(to be guilty of) dereliction of duty

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He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.

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He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.

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(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly

to be taken advantage of

pent-up unspoken grievances / suffering not willingly or possibly spoken of

a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)

Sentences with 虧

虧 currently does not appear in any sentence.