虧
kuī HSK5

deficit, lose

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Phonosemantic compound. 雐 represents the sound and 亏 represents the meaning.

Components

雐
雐 Sound component
亏
亏 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkhjwe[k]ʷʰ(r)aj diminish

說文解字

《說文》：“虧，气損也。从亏，雐聲。，虧或从兮。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)