U+532E "匮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+532E "匮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "to be deficient," "to lack," or "a chest or cabinet for storing valuables," though its modern usage predominantly conveys the sense of scarcity or shortage. It is composed of the radical 匚 (a box or enclosure) and the phonetic component 貴 (meaning valuable or expensive), reflecting its original association with a container for treasures that is now empty. In classical texts, the character appears in contexts describing depletion of resources, such as in the idiom 民穷财匮 (the people are impoverished and finances are insufficient), and it remains used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in formal or literary expressions. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it follows the standard stroke order for its components and is written as a left‑enclosure structure, with the radical enclosing the inner element.