kuī
verb/adverb HSK 5 #10,404

Meanings

  1. 1 to lose (money)
  2. 2 to be deficient
  3. 3 luckily; fortunately (ironic)

Examples

Zhècì tóuzī kuī le bùshǎo qián.
This investment lost quite a bit of money.
Kuī nǐ háishì wǒ péngyou ne!
And you call yourself my friend! (sarcastic)
Gōngsī jīnnián kuīsǔn yánzhòng.
The company had serious losses this year.

Tips

usage
at the start of a sentence is sarcastic/ironic: ! (How dare you even say that!). It implies the listener should know better.
grammar
吃亏 (chī kuī) means 'to suffer a loss/disadvantage.' It's one of the most common collocations with .

Components

radical
èr
two; pair of lines
Simplified from . The top horizontal plus the upper bar of form the pattern that serves as the indexing Kangxi radical. After simplification stripped the complex -and- components, only this -frame survives as the lookup anchor.
ideograph
kuī
deficit; loss; lacking
Trailing curved hook below the frame functions as a residual positional marker completing the modern silhouette. No independent reading. Historically the traditional pictured breath blowing through a tiger-mask emblem to suggest exhalation and loss; the reformed three-stroke shape preserves only this curl.

Stroke Order

kuī