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fá

Meanings

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fá
  1. 1.short of
  2. 2.tired

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to lack
  2. 2.poor
  3. 3.tired
  4. 4.lacking; insufficient; inadequate
  5. 5.to be moderate; to abstain; to check; to restrict oneself (in food, usage, spending, addiction, etc.)

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Etymology

Possibly an ideogram (指事) generated by replacing uppermost stroke of 正 (“straight; right”) with a slanted stroke 丿 — not right, unfair (according to Ji Xusheng, 季旭昇); lacking. However, the original version if 正 had 丁 as the top component. According to Shuowen, an ideogram (指事) created from reversing 正 (“straight; right”). This is more evident in the Small Seal Script form.

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Stroke order

Components

乏㇒之

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

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Synonyms

疲倦疲乏疲累疲憊疲勞累痿攰疚疚攰疓疚算渴悿吃力軟弱厭懶瞓衰瘏着力㾯傫鶴累

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Derived terms

不乏不乏其人不虞匱乏不虞匮乏中饋乏人中馈乏人乏人乏人問津乏人问津乏倦乏味乏善可陳乏善可陈乏困乏地乏手乏月乏桶乏樣子乏样子乏煤乏用乏角兒乏角儿乏貨乏货乏趣乏頓乏顿人困馬乏

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Related words

缺乏 to lack; to be short of贫乏 impoverished疲乏 tired乏味 tedious承乏 to accept a position on a provisional basis, in the absence of better qualified candidates (humble expr.)匮乏 to be deficient in sth乏力 lacking in strength; weak; feeble解乏 to relieve tiredness不乏 there is no lack of缺乏症 clinical deficiency乏燃料 (nuclear energy) spent fuel波提乏 Potiphar, the captain of the pharaoh's guard (in the account of Joseph in the Book of Genesis)