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欠

欠

See also: 缺

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

欠 (radical 76 欠+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓人 (NO), four-corner 27802)

  1. Kangxi radical #76, ⽋ ‎(“lack”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 565, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15991
  • Dae Jaweon: page 953, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2133, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6B20

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 欠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 欠
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (欠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
坎 *kʰoːmʔ, *kʰoːms
扻 *kʰoːmʔ
砍 *kʰoːmʔ
芡 *ɡromʔ
欠 *kʰoms
杴 *qʰom
鍁 *qʰam

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 欠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 嚴 (145)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去劔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɨɐmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰiɐmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰiɐmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰɨamH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰiɐmH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰĭɐmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰi̯ɐmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 欠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khjomH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰ(r)om-s/
English yawn

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 欠
Reading # 1/1
No. 10274
Phonetic
component		 欠
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰoms/
Notes 原列梵韻依王韻改釅

Definitions

欠

  1. to yawn
  2. to lack; to be deficient
  3. to owe

Compounds

  • 七拖八欠
  • 下欠
  • 兩不相欠／两不相欠
  • 只欠東風／只欠东风
  • 呵欠 (hēqiàn)
  • 呵欠連天／呵欠连天
  • 哈欠 (hāqiàn)
  • 外欠
  • 官欠
  • 尾欠
  • 懸欠／悬欠
  • 打呵欠 (dǎhēqiàn)
  • 打哈欠 (dǎhāqiàn)
  • 拖欠 (tuōqiàn)
  • 掛欠／挂欠
  • 撇欠
  • 欠事
  • 欠伸 (qiànshēn)
  • 欠佳
  • 欠債／欠债
  • 欠債還錢／欠债还钱
  • 欠契
  • 欠好
  • 欠妥
  • 欠安 (qiàn'ān)
  • 欠少
  • 欠情
  • 欠揍 (qiànzòu)
  • 欠據／欠据
  • 欠收
  • 欠條／欠条 (qiàntiáo)
  • 欠款 (qiànkuǎn)
  • 欠火
  • 欠當／欠当
  • 欠租
  • 欠稅／欠税
  • 欠繳／欠缴
  • 欠缺 (qiànquē)
  • 欠薪
  • 欠資／欠资
  • 欠資郵票／欠资邮票
  • 欠身 (qiànshēn)
  • 短欠
  • 積欠／积欠
  • 索欠
  • 缺欠
  • 落虧欠／落亏欠
  • 虧欠／亏欠 (kuīqiàn)
  • 賒欠／赊欠
  • 風欠／风欠

Japanese

Kanji

欠

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 缺)

  1. lack, shortage
  2. to be absent
  3. vacancy

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

欠 • ‎(heum, gam) (hangeul 흠, 감, revised heum, gam, McCune-Reischauer hŭm, kam, Yale hum, kam), another original reading: 검 (geom)

  1. 하품 (hapum) yawn
  2. 흉 (hyung) defect, deficiency
  3. 빚 (bij, bit) debt, delinquency

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

欠 (khiếm)

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