Chinese word dictionary

盈亏

yíng kuī · profit and loss; waxing and waning

Practice word

Word information

Simplified盈亏

Traditional盈虧

Pinyinyíng kuī

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

盈yíng

full, overflowing; surplus; to fill

亏kuī

to lose, to fail; loss, damages; deficient

How to learn 盈亏

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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亏kuī

to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly; luckily; fortunately; thanks to; (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)

多亏duōkuī

thanks to; luckily

亏损kuīsǔn

deficit; (financial) loss

吃亏chīkuī

to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately

亏本kuīběn

to make a loss

亏待kuīdài

to treat sb unfairly