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虧

kuī

lose, fail; damage; deficient

Strokes
17
Radical
虍
HSK
—
Tone
1

Simplified form: 亏

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 亏, the simplified form of 虧. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 多亏了你。

    Duō kuī le nǐ

    It's thanks to you.

  • 多亏了你，我还活着。

    Duō kuī le nǐ wǒ hái huó zhe

    I owe it you that I am still alive.

  • 多亏有了他，我们才能在这里。

    Duō kuī yǒu le tā wǒ men cái néng zài zhè lǐ

    We're here thanks to him.

  • 多亏你我胃口都没了。

    Duō kuī nǐ wǒ wèi kǒu dōu méi le

    Thanks to you I've lost my appetite.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 亏

  • 亏kuī 1deficiency; deficit; luckily; it's lucky that...; (often ironically) fancy that...
  • 幸亏xìng kuī 4–1 fortunately; luckily
  • 多亏duō kuī 1–1 thanks to; luckily
  • 吃亏chī kuī 1–1 to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately
  • 亏损kuī sǔn 1–3 deficit; (financial) loss
  • 亏待kuī dài 1–4 to treat sb unfairly
  • 亏本kuī běn 1–3 to make a loss