Kanji1 / 4
欠 kanji
lack, gap, fail, yawning radical (no. 76)
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ケツケン
Kun readings
かけるかく
Variant forms
缺缼Words with 欠
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3欠陥Populardefect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage; gap
- N3欠席Popularabsence; non-attendance
- N3欠点Popularfault; defect; flaw; weak point; weakness; shortcoming; drawback; failure (in an examination); failing grade
- N1欠乏Populardeficiency; insufficiency; shortage; lack; want; dearth; scarcity
- N1不可欠Popularindispensable; essential
- —欠員Popularvacant position; vacancy; opening; unfilled position
- —欠損Populardeficit; shortage; loss; being partially broken; being partially missing; being partially removed
- —欠如Popularlack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
- —出欠Popularattendance or absence
- —補欠Popularfilling a vacancy; supplementation; substitute; deputy; alternate; spare
- —欠場Popularabsence; not taking part
- —欠lack; deficiency; vacancy; absence; non-attendance
- —間欠intermittence; intermittent
- —金欠having no money; lack of money
- —欠課cutting class; absence from school
- —欠勤absence (from work)
- —欠航cancellation (of a flight or sea voyage)
- —欠字omission of a character; omitted character; blank type; insertion of blank spaces before and after the names of dignitaries (as a sign of respect)
- —欠除removal; omission; lusting
- —欠番missing number