亏 (虧) kuī

1. kuī verb to lose; to reduce; to diminish
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '虧' 1, p. 247; Unihan '虧'; XHZD '亏' 1)
2. kuī adverb fortunately
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '虧' adv 1; Kroll 2015 '虧' 3s, p. 247; XHZD '亏' 3)
3. kuī verb to treat unfairly
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (XHZD '亏' 2)
4. kuī noun a defect; a flaw
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 缺陷 (Guoyu '虧' n 1)
5. kuī noun a loss
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 损失 (Guoyu '虧' n 2; Kroll 2015 '虧' 2, p. 247; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1259)
6. kuī verb to waste
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 耗损 (Guoyu '虧' v 1)
7. kuī verb to be deficient in
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 欠缺 (Guoyu '虧' v 2; Kroll 2015 '虧' 1a, p. 247)
8. kuī verb to let down; to disappoint
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 辜负 (Guoyu '虧' v 3)
9. kuī verb to damage
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 毁坏 (Guoyu '虧' v 4)
10. kuī adjective weak
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 虚弱 (Guoyu '虧' adj)

Contained in

• 哑巴亏(啞巴虧) pent-up unspoken grievances; suffering not willingly or possibly spoken of
• 亏耗(虧耗) a loss
• 亏心事(虧心事) shameful deed
• 亏产(虧產) shortfall in production
• 亏心(虧心) a guilty conscience
• 亏折(虧折) to make a capital loss
• 吃亏上当(吃虧上當) to be taken advantage of
• 多亏(多虧) to be fortunate; thanks to
• 血亏(血虧) anemia
• 亏本出售(虧本出售) to sell at a loss
• 亏损(虧損) to lose ; a loss
• 盈亏自负(盈虧自負) responsible for its profit and losses (of organization); financially autonomous
• 亏缺(虧缺) to be lacking; to fall short of; to wane; deficit; deficient
• 平生不做亏心事，半夜敲门心不惊(平生不做虧心事，半夜敲門心不驚) He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
• 货比三家不吃亏(貨比三家不吃虧) shop around first and you won't get ripped off
• 亏格(虧格) genus
• 不听老人言，吃亏在眼前(不聽老人言，吃虧在眼前) ignore your elders at your peril
• 亏负(虧負) deficient; to let down; to cause suffering
• 幸亏(幸虧) fortunately; luckily
• 亏空(虧空) in debt; in the red; in deficit
• 亏欠(虧欠) to fall short of; to have a deficit; deficit; deficiency
• 月亏(月虧) waning moon; to wane
• 得亏(得虧) luckily; fortunately
• 吃亏(吃虧) to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out ; disadvantageous
• 亏本(虧本) to make a loss
• 自知理亏(自知理虧) to know that one is in the wrong
• 吃大亏(吃大虧) to cost one dearly; to end disastrously; to pay bitterly
• 好汉不吃眼前亏(好漢不吃眼前虧) a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him
• 吃哑巴亏(吃啞巴虧) to be forced to suffer in silence; unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
• 理亏(理虧) in the wrong
• 功亏一篑(功虧一簣) to spoil work due to lack of one basket of soil
• 不做亏心事，不怕鬼敲门(不做虧心事，不怕鬼敲門) He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night.; Rest with a clear conscience
• 扭亏(扭虧) to make good a deficit; to reverse a loss
• 亏待(虧待) to treat unfairly
• 暗亏(暗虧) hidden loss
• 自负盈亏(自負盈虧) responsible for its profit and losses
• 盈亏(盈虧) profit and loss; waxing and waning
• 亏得(虧得) fortunately; luckily; (sarcastic) fancy that, how fortunate!
• 有亏职守(有虧職守) (to be guilty of) dereliction of duty

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Truncated for common words

• 卷五十三　志第五:　　曆二 Volume 53 Treatises 6: Calendar 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 99
• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 50
• 卷五十四　志第三十五:　選舉四 部選 省選 廉察 薦舉 功酬虧永 Volume 54 Treatises 35: Selection of Officials 4 - Ministry Selection, Provincial Selection, Honest Inspectors, Recommendations, Compensation for Achievements and Perpetual Faults History of Jin 金史 — count: 22
• 卷八十二 志第三十五 律曆十五 Volume 82 Treatises 35: Measures and Calendar 15 History of Song 宋史 — count: 22
• 卷三十三 志第十三: 曆二 Volume 33 Treatises 13: Calendar 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 21
• 卷四十九　志第三十:　食貨四 鹽 酒 醋稅 茶 諸征商 金銀之稅 Volume 49 Treatises 30: Finance and Economics 4 - Tax on Salt, Alcoholic Beverages, and Vinegar; Tax on Tea, Commercial Travel, and Gold and Silver History of Jin 金史 — count: 19
• 卷三十六 志第十二 曆六 Volume 36 Treatises 12: Calendar 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 14
• 卷三十一 志第七 曆一 Volume 31 Treatises 7: Calendar 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 13
• 卷六十九 志第二十二 律曆二 Volume 69 Treatises 22: Measures and Calendar 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 13
• 卷一百八十二 志第一百三十五 食貨下四 Volume 182 Treatises 135: Finance and Economics 2d History of Song 宋史 — count: 12

Collocations

• 亏人 (虧人) 以虧人自利也 — Mozi 墨子, 卷五 非攻上 Book 5 - Condemnation of Offensive War I — count: 6
• 亏君 (虧君) 虧君之義 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 6
• 天道亏 (天道虧) 天道虧盈而益謙 — Book of Changes 易經, 謙 Qian — count: 5
• 亏夺 (虧奪) 以此虧奪民衣食之財 — Mozi 墨子, 卷八 非樂上 Book 8 - Condemnation of Music I — count: 4
• 亏盈 (虧盈) 天道虧盈而益謙 — Book of Changes 易經, 謙 Qian — count: 3
• 亏膳 (虧膳) 虧膳貶樂 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《三王世家》 House of the Three Kings — count: 3
• 亏令 (虧令) 不足曰虧令 — Guanzi 管子, 立政第四 Chapter 4: Establishing Governance — count: 3
• 亏满 (虧滿) 天道虧滿而益謙 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十 敬慎 Chapter 10: Being Reverent and Catious — count: 2
• 亏姑 (虧姑) 虧姑以成婦 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 2
• 蔽亏 (蔽虧) 日月蔽虧 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 2