亏
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to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly; luckily; fortunately; thanks to; (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 二 +1
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 亏
- Common rank
- #1,657
- Unicode
- U+4E8F
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 亏 is formed
How to remember it
loss · Heisig RSH #2286
snare — as a component also called: snake hook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 亏
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不听老人言，吃亏在眼前 | (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril | |
| 货比三家不吃亏 | shop around first and you won't get ripped off (idiom) | |
| 平生不做亏心事，半夜敲门心不惊 | He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night.; Rest with a clear consci… | |
| 好汉不吃眼前亏 | a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom) | |
| 货问三家不吃亏 | see 貨比三家不吃虧|货比三家不吃亏[huo4 bi3 san1 jia1 bu4 chi1 kui1] | |
| 自知理亏 | to know that one is in the wrong (idiom) | |
| 吃亏上当 | to be taken advantage of | |
| 亏心事 | shameful deed | |
| 不做亏心事，不怕鬼敲门 | he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear… | |
| 吃大亏 | to cost one dearly; to end disastrously; to pay bitterly | |
| 有亏职守 | (to be guilty of) dereliction of duty | |
| 亏本出售 | to sell at a loss | |
| 亏心 | a guilty conscience | |
| 理亏 | in the wrong | |
| 多亏 | thanks to; luckily | |
| 亏空 | in debt; in the red; in deficit | |
| 亏本 | to make a loss | |
| 得亏 | luckily; fortunately | |
| 亏得 | fortunately; luckily; (sarcastic) fancy that, how fortunate! | |
| 亏格 | (math.) genus |
Sound family
These characters use 亏 as their sound component — compare how they read.