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Radical 76 or radical lack (欠部) meaning "owe", "lack", or "yawn" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 235 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
欠 is also the 90th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
A person (人) with mouth open, top part unrelated to 刀. Mirror of ⺛; unrelated to 久.
As an independent sinogram it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a fourth grade kanji.[1]