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欠

Lack
Stroke count: 4

Readings

On readingケツ
Kun readingか.ける、か.く

Verbs with «欠»

欠く欠ける欠かせる欠かす

Meanings

  1. lackRtK
    職務に関して怠慢が甚だしく、常識に欠ける面があったらしい。It is said that he was very sloppy with work and lacking in common sense.wiki
    29段以降を欠く、室町後期の写本。A manuscript in the late Muromachi Period that lacks Section 29 and following partswiki
  2. fail
  3. gap
  4. yawning radical (no. 76)
  1. yawn
  2. yawning
  3. kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)

Popular Usage

欠陥欠席欠点欠ける欠く欠乏

Radicals and components

Radical欠lack

Mnemonic (RtK)

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yawn

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 505

Compound words

彼は病気のため欠席した。
He was absent owing to illness.tatoeba
彼は病気のため学校を欠席した。
On account of illness he absented himself from school.tatoeba
彼は病気のために欠席した。
He was absent because of illness.tatoeba
彼は病気で学校を欠席した。
He was absent from school on account of illness.tatoeba
粗暴で教養に欠ける。
He is rough and uncultured.wiki
欠点の露呈と終焉
Defects exposure and the endwiki
ソメイヨシノには大きな欠点がある。
Someiyoshino has a major fault.wiki
日記・回想章段を欠く。
The book is missing chapters on diary and reminiscence.wiki
生卵の大量摂取でビオチン欠乏症を引き起こす可能性がある。
Eating a large amount of raw eggs may cause biotin deficiency.wiki
孤立状態の蝦夷地には物資欠乏のおそれがあり、前途は困難であった。
Therefore, isolated Ezo was threatened to fall in the shortage of goods and had a lot of troubles.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

とんでもない欠陥が放置されてた
とんでもないけっかんがほうちされてたA serious defect was left unaddressed.
新生活に電子レンジは欠かせない
しんせいかつにでんしれんじはかかせないA microwave oven is essential for a new life.
この役職についてから胃薬が欠かせない
このやくしょくについてからいぐすりがかかせないSince taking this position, I can't do without stomach medicine.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

4 strokes

Lack. A person with mouth wide open — yawning, missing something.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 欠

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step