欠
qiàn HSK5

yawn, deficient

欠 qiàn
owe verb
to owe money, a debt, or a favor

他欠了我很多钱。

tā qiàn le wǒ hěn​duō qián.

He owes me a lot of money.

lack verb
to be short of, deficient in, or lacking something

这种说法欠考虑。

zhè zhǒng shuō​fa qiàn kǎo​lǜ.

This statement is ill-considered.

yawn noun
to yawn, typically used as a bound form

他忍不住打了一个哈欠。

tā rěn bù zhù dǎ le yī gè hā qiàn.

He couldn't help but yawn.

raise slightly verb
to slightly lift or raise a part of the body

他微微欠了下身子，向推门进来的老师打招呼。

tā wēi​wēi qiàn le xià shēn​zi, xiàng tuī mén jìn​lái de lǎo​shī dǎ​zhāo​hu.

He leaned forward slightly to greet the teacher as they pushed the door and walked in.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,948th most common 39.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,270th most common 63.2 per million appears in 28% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
78.2 per million appears in 26% of films
Written text
39.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+6B20

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