缺
quē HSK3

be short of, lack

缺 quē
to lack verb
to be short of; to run short of; to lack something that should be present

我们缺的是信任。

wǒ​men quē de shì xìn​rèn.

What we lack is trust.

他所缺的只是一枚奥运会的金牌。

tā suǒ quē de zhǐ​shì yī méi ào​yùn​huì de jīn​pái.

All he’s missing is an Olympic gold medal.

flaw noun
(bound form) a fault or imperfection; a mistake
to be absent verbnoun
to fail to show up; to be absent from a required place
incomplete adjectiveverb
(bound form) chipped; broken; damaged; missing a part
gap noun
(bound form) an opening; a breach; a nick or notch
[vacancy]
an opening or vacancy for a job or official position
to decline
(literary) to decline; to weaken; to be in a state of decay (often referring to royal authority or traditions)

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
875th most common 199.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,230th most common 68.0 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.2 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
68.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+7F3A

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