乏 — Chinese character
乏
fá
poor; short, lacking; tired
- Pinyin
- fá
- Radical
- 4 ⼃ (Slash)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 丿 之
- Formation
- ideographic — A foot 之 running into a wall or barrier 丿
- Japanese
- 乏 as a kanji
Common words with 乏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缺乏 | quē fá | to lack; to be short of |
| 不乏 | bù fá | there is no lack of |
| 匮乏 (匱乏) | kuì fá | to be deficient in sth; to be short of sth (supplies, money etc) |
| 贫乏 (貧乏) | pín fá | impoverished; lacking |
| 乏力 | fá lì | lacking in strength; weak; feeble; not up to the task |
| 乏味 | fá wèi | tedious |
| 疲乏 | pí fá | tired; weary |
| 乏善可陈 (乏善可陳) | fá shàn kě chén | (idiom) to be nothing to write home about |
| 缺乏症 | quē fá zhèng | clinical deficiency |
| 回天乏术 (回天乏術) | huí tiān fá shù | (idiom) nothing can be done to remedy the situation; beyond recovery |
| 单调乏味 (單調乏味) | dān diào fá wèi | monotonous; dull |
| 分身乏术 (分身乏術) | fēn shēn fá shù | to be up to one's ears in work (idiom); to be unable to attend to other things at the same time |
English words written with 乏
乏 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 1
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