不足 bùzú▶ ไม่เพียงพอ

Stroke order

不足 is written in 11 strokes across 2 characters.

• 不 — 4 strokes
• 足 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. insufficient
2. lacking
3. deficiency
4. not enough
5. inadequate
6. not worth
7. cannot
8. should not

Related words

• 不如ไม่ดีเท่า
• 不安ไม่สบายใจ, ไม่มั่นคง
• 不断อย่างต่อเนื่อง, ตลอดเวลา
• 不然มิฉะนั้น
• 满足พอใจ
• 要不หรือ

不足 is pronounced bùzú and means “ไม่เพียงพอ”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 不足 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.