欠

音読おんよみ: ケツ

訓読くんよみ:ける・か

画数かくすう: 4

部首ぶしゅ: あくび(欠)

Meaning

Lack / Gap / Fail / Yawn

Conjugation
Tap for 欠く (to lack) Tap for 欠ける (to be missing)
  • 欠席けっせき — absence
  • 欠点けってん — flaw / shortcoming
  • 欠乏けつぼう — shortage / scarcity
  • 欠陥けっかん — defect
  • 欠伸あくび — yawn
  • 欠員けついん — vacancy
  • 欠如けつじょ — lack / absence
  • 欠勤けっきん — absence from work

あくび depicts an open mouth and bent body (yawning), which extended to senses of “gap,” “missing,” or “failing.” It’s central in words about deficiency or absence.

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