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乏

fá

HSK 5 Character

What 乏 means

1. short of
2. tired

Example sentences

• 我很乏味。
  Wǒ hěn fáwèi.
  I am boring.
• 他缺乏常识。
  Tā quēfá chángshí.
  He is lacking in common sense.
• 她缺乏常识。
  Tā quēfá chángshí.
  She is lacking in common sense.
• 你缺乏冲劲。
  Nǐ quēfá chòngjìn.
  You don't have enough push.
• 他缺乏经验。
  He is lacking in experience.
• 他缺乏勇气。
  He is wanting in courage.

Words starting with 乏

• 乏味fá wèitedious
• 乏力fá lìlacking in strength; weak; feeble; not up to the task
• 乏善可陈fá shàn kě chén(idiom) to be nothing to write home about
• 乏人照顾fá rén zhào gù(of a person) left unattended; not cared for
• 乏燃料fá rán liào(nuclear energy) spent fuel
• 乏燃料棒fá rán liào bàng(nuclear energy) spent fuel rods

Words containing 乏

• 缺乏quē fáto lack; to be short of
• 贫乏pín fáimpoverished; lacking; deficient
• 不乏bù fáthere is no lack of
• 匮乏kuì fáto be deficient in sth; to be short of sth (supplies, money etc)
• 疲乏pí fátired; weary
• 承乏chéng fáto accept a position on a provisional basis, in the absence of better qualified…
• 解乏jiě fáto relieve tiredness; to freshen up
• 波提乏Bō tí fáPotiphar, the captain of the pharaoh's guard…
• 人困马乏rén kùn mǎ fáriders tired and horses weary (idiom); worn out; exhausted
• 分身乏术fēn shēn fá shùto be up to one's ears in work (idiom); to be unable to attend to other things at the…
• 单调乏味dān diào fá wèimonotonous; dull; tedious (idiom)
• 回天乏术huí tiān fá shù(idiom) nothing can be done to remedy the situation; beyond recovery
• 缺乏症quē fá zhèngclinical deficiency
• 欲振乏力yù zhèn fá lìto try to rouse oneself but lack the strength (idiom)
• 语言匮乏yǔ yán kuì fálanguage deficit (linguistics)
• 不虞匮乏bù yú kuì fáto have ample supplies (or money etc)
• 后继乏人hòu jì fá rénsee 后继无人
• 无虞匮乏wú yú kuì fásee 不虞匮乏

Characters that look like 乏

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 反fǎncontrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down
• 瓦wǎroof tile; abbr. for 瓦特
• 毛máohair; feather; down

Sounds the same

Read fá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 罚to punish; to penalize; to fine
• 伐to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against
• 阀powerful individual, family or group; clique; (loanword) valve
• 筏raft (of logs)
• 垡to turn the soil; upturned soil; (used in place names)
• 橃large boat; old variant of 筏
• 茷denseness of grass-foliage