Waste not, want not.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
匮乏
to be deficient in sth
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to be deficient in sth
02
to be short of sth (supplies, money etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 匮乏 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 匮乏 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Though it is poor in natural resources, Japan has become an economic superpower thanks to international trade.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 匮乏.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 匮乏.
Directly before
- 不匮乏1
- 的匮乏1
- 自然资源匮乏1
Directly after
- 匮乏的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 匮乏
What does 匮乏 mean in Chinese?
匮乏 (kuìfá) means to be deficient in sth.
How do you pronounce 匮乏?
匮乏 is pronounced kuìfá.
Is 匮乏 an HSK word?
匮乏 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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