欠

lack, gap, fail, yawning radical (no. 76)

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ケツケン

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

か.くか.ける

Stroke Order

4 / 4

Information

Grade:4

Strokes:4

JLPT:N3

Frequency:860

Vocabulary

ケツ

Word	Reading	Meaning
欠員	ケツイン	vacant position; vacancy; opening; unfilled position
欠如	ケツジョ	lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
欠乏	ケツボウ	deficiency; insufficiency; shortage; lack; want; dearth; scarcity
不可欠	フカケツ	indispensable; essential
補欠	ホケツ	filling a vacancy; supplementation; substitute; deputy; alternate; spare

ケン

Word	Reading	Meaning
欠缺	ケンケツ	lacuna; gap where something is lacked
欠缺利札	ケンケツリサツ	invalid coupon
阿毘羅吽欠	アビラウンケン	a-bi-ra-un-ken (mantra directed to Vairocana)
阿毘羅吽欠	アビラウンケン	a-bi-ra-un-ken (mantra directed to Vairocana)
欠伸	ケンシン	yawning and stretching oneself

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
欠かす	かかす	to miss (doing); to fail (to do); to do without
欠く	かく	to chip; to nick; to break; to crack; to lack
欠ける	かける	to chip; to be chipped; to break (off); to be damaged; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to become lost; to be lacking (in); to be short (of); to be deficient; to be wanting (in); to wane (of the moon); to go into eclipse
欠陥	けっかん	defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage; gap
欠伸	あくび	yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)

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These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

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