欠
lack; gap; fail; yawning radical (no. 76)
4 strokes. Taught in grade 4. Newspaper frequency rank 860.
Readings
- ケツ (on reading): 欠席 (けっせき) absence; 欠点 (けってん) fault
- かける (kun reading): 欠ける (かける) to chip; 欠片 (かけら) fragment
- かく (kun reading): 欠く (かく) to chip; 欠かす (かかす) to miss (doing)
- ケン (on reading): 欠缺 (けんけつ) lacuna; 法の欠缺 (ほうのけんけつ) gap in the law
Components
Kanji containing 欠
- 次 next
- 欧 Europe
- 歌 song
- 欲 longing
- 飲 drink
- 歓 delight
- 吹 blow
- 軟 soft
- 欺 deceit
- 炊 cook
- 款 goodwill
- 漱 gargle
- 欣 take pleasure in
- 欽 respect
- 坎 pitfall
- 欷 cry
- 欸 exclamation
- 厥 that
- 嵌 go into
- 欹 prick up (one's ears)
- 盜 thief
- 歃 sip
- 歇 exhausted
- 羨 envious
- 飮 drink
- 嗽 rinse
- 歉 insufficiency
- 歎 grief
- 歐 Europe
- 篏 inlay
- 歔 cry
- 歙 come together
- 歛 tighten
- 歟 interrogative particle
- 闕 lack
- 歡 delight
Words using 欠
- 欠席 (けっせき) absence
- 欠点 (けってん) fault
- 欠場 (けつじょう) absence
- 欠陥 (けっかん) defect
- 補欠選挙 (ほけつせんきょ) special election
- 欠ける (かける) to chip
- 欠片 (かけら) fragment
- 満ち欠け (みちかけ) waxing and waning (of the Moon)
- ドット欠け (ドットかけ) pixel defect (on an LCD display, e.g. dead pixel)
- 欠け (かけ) fragment
- 欠く (かく) to chip
- 欠かす (かかす) to miss (doing)
- 事欠く (ことかく) to lack
- 切り欠き (きりかき) cutout
- 切り欠く (きりかく) to cut (out)
- 欠缺 (けんけつ) lacuna
- 法の欠缺 (ほうのけんけつ) gap in the law
- 記録欠缺の主張 (きろくけんけつのしゅちょう) alleging diminution
- 欠缺利札 (けんけつりさつ) invalid coupon
- 欠伸 (けんしん) yawning and stretching oneself
155 words in all.