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缺少

quēshǎo
verbHSK 3

“Lack” in Chinese is 缺少 (quēshǎo).

Meaning

  • lack
  • shortage of
  • shortfall
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  • to be short (of)
  • to lack

Example

水是生命所不可缺少的。

Water is essential to life.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

quēHSK 310 strokesdeficiencyshǎoHSK 14 strokesfew

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