Chinese symbol for “deficient”
亏负
kuī fù
Traditional: 虧負
deficient; to let sb down; to cause sb suffering
The closest CC-CEDICT match for deficient is 亏负 (kuī fù), defined as: deficient; to let sb down; to cause sb suffering.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “deficient”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贫 (貧) | pín | poor; inadequate |
| 贫乏 (貧乏) | pín fá | impoverished; lacking |
| 歉 | qiàn | to apologize; to regret |
| 脱销 (脫銷) | tuō xiāo | to sell out; to run out (of supplies) |
| 亏缺 (虧缺) | kuī quē | to be lacking; to fall short of |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 亏负.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亏损 (虧損) | kuī sǔn | deficit; (financial) loss |
| 幸亏 (幸虧) | xìng kuī | fortunately; luckily |
| 多亏 (多虧) | duō kuī | thanks to; luckily |
| 吃亏 (吃虧) | chī kuī | to suffer losses; to come to grief |
| 亏欠 (虧欠) | kuī qiàn | to have a deficit; to be in the red; to owe |
| 盈亏 (盈虧) | yíng kuī | profit and loss; waxing and waning |
| 负责 (負責) | fù zé | to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for; conscientious |
| 负责人 (負責人) | fù zé rén | person in charge |
See also: Japanese symbol for “deficient”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.