| 597 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 496 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 471 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 968 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2412 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 713 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 647 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 383 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 384 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 659 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1119 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2481 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1255 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1721 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 477 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 15991 | Morohashi |
| 1987 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2928 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 466 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 505 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 442 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
860 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 欠 【ケツ】 lack, deficiency, vacancy, absence, non-attendance
- 欠員 【ケツイン】 vacancy, vacant position
- 補欠 【ホケツ】 filling a vacancy, supplementation, substitute, deputy, alternate, spare
- 出欠 【シュッケツ】 attendance or absence
- 欠缺 【ケンケツ】 lacuna, gap where something is lacked
- 欠缺利札 【ケンケツリサツ】 invalid coupon
- 阿毘羅吽欠 【アビラウンケン】 a-bi-ra-un-ken (mantra directed to Vairocana)
Kun reading compounds
- 欠ける 【かける】 to chip, to be chipped, to break (off), to be damaged, to be missing (from a set, team, etc.), to be absent, to become lost, to be lacking (in), to be short (of), to be deficient, to be wanting (in), to wane (of the moon), to go into eclipse
- 欠く 【かく】 to chip, to nick, to break, to crack, to lack
- 欠くことができない 【かくことができない】 indispensable, essential, necessary
Readings
- Korean:
- heum, gam, gyeol
Spanish
- falta
- carestía
- romperse
- agrietarse
- faltar
- carecer
Portuguese
- falta
- intervalo
- falha
French
- manquer
- lacune
- rater
- radical bâillement (no. 76)
| 2562 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4j0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-2-2 | SKIP code |
| 4-4-4 | SKIP code |
| 2780.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-23-71 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6b20 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
761 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 測量 【ソクリョウ】 measurement, surveying
- 測定 【ソクテイ】 measurement
- 計測 【ケイソク】 measuring, measurement
- 憶測 【オクソク】 guess, speculation, supposition
Kun reading compounds
- 計る 【はかる】 to measure, to weigh, to survey, to time (sound, gauge, estimate), to conjecture, to infer, to surmise
Readings
- Korean:
- cheug
Spanish
- medida
- medir
- sondear
- estimar
Portuguese
- braça
- plano
- esquema
- medida
French
- brasse
- mesurer
- sonder
- plan
| 668 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 765 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 743 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 862 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2632 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 758 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 697 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1578 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 610 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 620 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 810 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1224 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 744 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 444 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 558 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 151 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 17780 | Morohashi |
| 610 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3244 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 149 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 160 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 757 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 343 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3a9.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-9 | SKIP code |
| 3210.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-34-12 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6e2c | Unicode hex code |