What 乏 means
It means something is missing or insufficient. Chinese compounds with 乏 cover shortage, poverty, fatigue, or dullness; Japanese uses 乏しい (とぼしい, “insufficient”) and 貧乏 (“poverty”).
Written forms appear on bronze inscriptions from China's late Warring States period, then on Qin bamboo slips and in small-seal script, an older standardized style.
Neutral in compounds; bare 乏 is ambiguous.
Do not reduce it to poverty; the surrounding word decides.
Who writes 乏
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsChinese: not enough time.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
3shortage; lacking something
physical fatigue
dull or uninteresting
Questions people ask
1Why does 乏 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 乏
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- 乏 meaning · 乏 Chinese · 乏 Japanese · 乏しい · 缺乏 · 疲乏 · 乏味 · 貧乏
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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乏CSS
\4E4FChinese pinyin
Enter fa or fá in a Chinese pinyin input method, then select 乏.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
乏
HTML hex
乏
CSS content
content: "\4E4F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%B9%8F
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.