亏
kuī HSK5

deficit, lose

亏 (虧) kuī
deficit verb
to lose money, have a financial deficit, or be deficient

公司的生意亏了很多钱。

gōng​sī de shēng​yi kuī le hěn​duō qián.

The company's business lost a lot of money.

irony verb
used to introduce an ironic remark about someone who has fallen short of expectations

亏你还是个老师，连这道题都不会。

kuī nǐ hái​shi gè lǎo​shī, lián zhè dào tí dōu bù huì.

For a teacher, it's embarrassing that you don't even know how to solve this problem.

thanks to verb
luckily; fortunately; thanks to

亏得你及时赶到，不然我就迟到了。

kuī de nǐ jí​shí gǎn​dào, bù​rán wǒ jiù chí​dào le.

Luckily you arrived in time, otherwise I would have been late.

treat unfairly verb
to treat someone unfairly or cause them to suffer a loss

我绝不会亏了你的。

wǒ jué bù huì kuī le nǐ de.

I will definitely not treat you unfairly.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,738th most common 51.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,004th most common 19.1 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.52 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
17.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
虧
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+4E8F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)