短 缺

duǎnquē

“Shortage” in Chinese is 短缺 (duǎnquē).

Meaning

shortage

Example

燃料短缺。

There was a shortage of fuel.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

duǎnHSK 212 strokesshort quēHSK 310 strokesdeficiency

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