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Kanji Detail for 欠 - "lack, absence, missing"

  • Meaning

    欠 means "lack, absence, missing."

    1. Lack - To be missing; to be deficient.

    2. Absence - Not being present.

    3. Yawn - To open the mouth wide.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    lack; gap; fail; yawning radical (no. 76)

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    owe, lack, be deficient; Kangxi radical 76

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to lack, to owe; to breathe, to yawn

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To open the mouth and exhale. As in yawning and stretching (欠伸). When energy is depleted, one yawns; when the body is tired, one stretches. | Insufficient. As in 欠缺 (lacking), 虧欠 (deficit). | Owing money to others is also called 欠. As in 欠帳 (debt), 倒欠 (bankruptcy debt).
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Sentences including

  • You must account for your absence.

  • I can't account for his absence.

  • His absence was due to the storm.

  • There were quite a few students absent from class today.

  • Why were you absent yesterday?

  • Every man has his faults.

  • No students were absent.

  • Everyone has faults.

  • This desk has lost one of its legs.

  • Two students are absent today.

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