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亏

kuī

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 5 Character Traditional 虧

亏 (kuī) means "deficiency; deficit; luckily". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 亏 means

1. to lose (money); to have a deficit
2. to be deficient
3. to treat unfairly
4. luckily; fortunately; thanks to
5. (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)

Example sentences

• 多亏你我胃口都没了。
  Duōkuī nǐ wǒ wèikǒu dōu méile.
  Thanks to you I've lost my appetite.
• 亏你想到这种馊主意！
  Kuī nǐ xiǎngdào zhèzhǒng sōuzhǔyi!
  Of all the silly ideas!
• 多亏了你，我还活着。
  I owe it you that I am still alive.
• 多亏了冷夏，啤酒卖的不好。
  Thanks to a cold summer, beer has sold poorly.
• 多亏有了他，我们才能在这里。
  We're here thanks to him.
• 那家公司去年亏损了10亿日元。
  Nà jiā gōngsī qùnián kuīsǔn le shí yì Rìyuán.
  The company suffered a loss of one billion yen last year.

Words starting with 亏

• 亏损kuī sǔndeficit; (financial) loss
• 亏待kuī dàito treat sb unfairly
• 亏本kuī běnto make a loss
• 亏得kuī defortunately; luckily; (sarcastic) fancy that, how fortunate!
• 亏欠kuī qiànto have a deficit; to be in the red; to owe
• 亏心事kuī xīn shìshameful deed
• 亏空kuī kōngin debt; in the red; in deficit
• 亏心kuī xīna guilty conscience
• 亏折kuī zhéto make a capital loss
• 亏格kuī gé(math) genus
• 亏产kuī chǎnshortfall in production
• 亏缺kuī quēto be lacking; to fall short of; to wane
• 亏负kuī fùdeficient; to let sb down; to cause sb suffering
• 亏本出售kuī běn chū shòuto sell at a loss

Words containing 亏

• 幸亏xìng kuīfortunately; luckily
• 吃亏chī kuīto suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out
• 多亏duō kuīthanks to; luckily
• 理亏lǐ kuīin the wrong
• 盈亏yíng kuīprofit and loss; waxing and waning
• 功亏一篑gōng kuī yī kuìlit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful…
• 得亏děi kuīluckily; fortunately
• 扭亏niǔ kuīto make good a deficit; to reverse a loss
• 暗亏àn kuīhidden loss (finance)
• 月亏yuè kuīwaning moon; to wane
• 浮亏fú kuī(finance) floating loss; unrealized loss
• 血亏xuè kuīanemia
• 吃大亏chī dà kuīto cost one dearly; to end disastrously; to pay bitterly
• 吃亏上当chī kuī shàng dàngto be taken advantage of
• 扭亏为盈niǔ kuī wéi yíng(idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable
• 有亏职守yǒu kuī zhí shǒu(to be guilty of) dereliction of duty
• 盈亏自负yíng kuī zì fùresponsible for its profit and losses (of organization); financially autonomous…
• 自知理亏zì zhī lǐ kuīto know that one is in the wrong (idiom)
• 自负盈亏zì fù yíng kuīresponsible for its profit and losses (of organization); financially autonomous…
• 哑巴亏yǎ ba kuīpent-up unspoken grievances; suffering not willingly or possibly spoken of
• 吃哑巴亏chī yǎ ba kuīto be forced to suffer in silence; unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
• 好汉不吃眼前亏hǎo hàn bù chī yǎn qián kuīa wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
• 货比三家不吃亏huò bǐ sān jiā bù chī kuīshop around first and you won't get ripped off (idiom)
• 不做亏心事，不怕鬼敲门bù zuò kuī xīn shì , bù pà guǐ qiāo ménhe who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night…

Characters that look like 亏

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

• 专zhuānfor a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special
• 寸cùna unit of length; inch; thumb
• 兮xī(particle in old Chinese similar to 啊)

Sounds the same

Read kuī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 窥to peep; to pry into
• 盔helmet
• 岿high and mighty (of mountain); hilly
• 悝to laugh at
• 刲cut open and clean

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kuī correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.