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匮乏

kuì fá

2-character word Traditional 匱乏

What 匮乏 means

1. to be deficient in sth
2. to be short of sth (supplies, money etc)

The characters in 匮乏

• 匮kuìto lack; lacking; empty
• 乏fáshort of; tired

Example sentences

• 不浪费则不匮乏。
  Bù làngfèi zé bù kuìfá.
  Waste not, want not.
• 乐观主义仅仅是一种信息的匮乏的产物。
  Lèguān zhǔyì jǐnjǐn shì yī zhǒng xìnxī de kuìfá de chǎnwù.
  Optimism is merely a lack of information.
• 日本即便是自然资源匮乏，却仍得益于国际贸易，成为了一个强大的经济体。
  Though it is poor in natural resources, Japan has become an economic superpower thanks to international trade.

Words containing 匮乏

• 语言匮乏yǔ yán kuì fálanguage deficit (linguistics)
• 不虞匮乏bù yú kuì fáto have ample supplies (or money etc)
• 无虞匮乏wú yú kuì fásee 不虞匮乏