| 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 junior high
JLPT level N1
1154 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 陥落 【カンラク】 subsidence, sinking, cave-in, collapse, falling in, fall (of a city, fortress, etc.), surrender, fall (in position, rank, etc.), demotion, giving in (to someone's persuasion), yielding, being convinced
- 陥没 【カンボツ】 cave-in, collapse, sinking, depression (e.g. of the skull), subsidence
- 擠陥 【セイカン】 tempting into crime
- 注意欠陥 【チュウイケッカン】 attention deficit
Kun reading compounds
- 陥る 【おちいる】 to fall into (e.g. a hole), to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.), to fall into (a trap, etc.), to fall, to surrender, to capitulate
- 陥れる 【おとしいれる】 to trap (into a difficult situation), to put (in a fix), to throw (e.g. into turmoil), to trick (into doing), to lure (into a trap), to frame (for a crime), to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.), to take, to reduce, to drop (something) into
Readings
- Korean:
- ham
Spanish
- hundirse
- derrumbarse
- caer
- resbalarse
- deslizarse
Portuguese
- colapso
- desmoronar
- ruir
- queda (castelo)
- deslizamento
French
- s'écrouler
- piège
- tomber dans
- capituler
- tomber (château)
- glisser dans
| 1098 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1678 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4990 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1718 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1870 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1218 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1281 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1522 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 730 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 547 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 334 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 413 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1325 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 41676P | Morohashi |
| 457 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6446 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1315 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1412 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1401 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3678 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2d7.11 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-7 | SKIP code |
| 7726.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-20-57 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9665 | Unicode hex code |