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U+7F3A, 缺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F3A

[U+7F39]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7F3B]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 121, +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人山木大 (OUDK), four-corner 85730, composition )

Derived characters

  • , 𠺋, 𧎯, 𨶏(𨸊), 𮉻

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 945, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28122
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1385, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2936, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7F3A

Chinese

More information trad., simp. # ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 缺, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰʷed, *kʰʷeːd): semantic (earthen pot) + phonetic (OC *kʷraːds).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • kiék - “incomplete”;
  • kuók - “to lack”.

  • Dialectal data
More information Variety, Location ...

More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. incomplete; uncompleted; deficient
  2. imperfect; flawed
  3. to lack; to be short of
  4. to be absent
  5. vacancy; gap; deficit
  6. (colloquial) to be mean; to be wicked
  7. (colloquial) to be stupid; to be dense
  8. (Hokkien) chipped part; broken edge (on a bowl, cup, etc.)
  9. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Classifier for chipped parts on the edge of a container.
  10. (Shanghainese, when telling time) to
    八點十分八点十分 [Shanghainese]   7paq-ti5 7chiuq 8zeq-fen1 [Wugniu]   ten to eight

Synonyms

  • (incomplete):

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of imperfect):

Compounds

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 230.
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Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. lack
  2. gap
  3. fail

Readings

  • Go-on: けち (kechi)くゑち (kweti, historical)
  • Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)くゑつ (kwetu, historical)
  • Kun: かく (kaku, 缺く)かける (kakeru, 缺ける)

Compounds

Usage notes

In modern Japanese, is mostly replaced by , due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 이지러질 (ijireojil gyeol))

  1. hanja form? of (be short of, lack)
  2. hanja form? of (gap, deficit)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khuyết

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