匮匱 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 匱, the traditional character: 匮 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 4 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 俭以防匮。

  Waste not, want not.

• 日本即便是自然资源匮乏，却仍得益于国际贸易，成为了一个强大的经济体。

  Though it is poor in natural resources, Japan has become an economic superpower thanks to international trade.

All example sentences with 匮