| 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】 vacant position, vacancy, opening, unfilled 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 |
片
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1076 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 片 【ヘン】 counter for scraps, fragments, petals, etc.
- 片時 【カタトキ】 a (single) moment, an instant
- 紙片 【シヘン】 piece (scrap, bit, strip) of paper
- 砕片 【サイヘン】 debris
Kun reading compounds
- 片 【かた】 one (of a pair), incomplete, imperfect, fragmentary, few, little, off-centre, remote, side, problem, question, matters
- 片側 【かたがわ】 one side
Readings
- Korean:
- pyeon
Spanish
- una parte de un total de dos
- trozo
- incompleto
- pedazo
- imperfecto
Portuguese
- unilateral
- folha de papel
- folha (árvore)
French
- simple face
- feuille
- radical côté droit (no. 91)
| 980 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 969 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 905 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2842 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 937 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 724 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 82 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1045 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1088 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1143 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1287 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4272 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2158 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2910 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1220 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 19813 | Morohashi |
| 3461 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3525 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1212 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1297 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 833 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1254 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2j2.5 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-4-4 | SKIP code |
| 3-3-1 | SKIP code |
| 2202.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-42-50 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7247 | Unicode hex code |