kuī
verb HSK 5 #10,404

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 1
Kuī nǐ háishì wǒ péngyou ne!
And you call yourself my friend! (sarcastic)
HSK 4
Zhècì tóuzī kuī le bùshǎo qián.
This investment lost quite a bit of money.
HSK 7-9
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