"Shortage" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 短缺 | duǎn quē | shortage |   |
| 荒 |  huāng | desolate / shortage / scarce / out of practice / absurd / uncultivated / to neglect | |
| 缺少 | quē shǎo | lack / shortage of / shortfall / to be short (of) / to lack | |
| 缺水 | quē shuǐ | water shortage / dehydration | |
| 缺钱 | quē qián | shortage of money | |
| 补缺 | bǔ quē | to fill a vacancy / to make up for a shortage / to supply a deficiency | |
| 奇缺 | qí quē | very short of (food, clean water etc) / extreme shortage / deficit | |
| 电荒 | diàn huāng | shortage of electricity | |
| 缺油 | quē yóu | oil shortage | |
| 补阙拾遗 | bǔ quē shí yí | to compensate for shortage and leakage | |
| 谋臣如雨 | móu chén rú yǔ | strategic experts as thick as rain (idiom) / no shortage of advisers on strategy | |
| 粮荒 | liáng huāng | famine / critical shortage of grain | |
| 紧绌 | jǐn chù | supply shortage | |
| 能源短缺 | néng yuán duǎn quē | energy shortage | |
| 粮食短缺 | food shortage | | |
| 缺少蛋白质 | protein shortage / protein shortfall | | |
| 多得是 | duō de shì | there's no shortage / there are plenty | |
| 返销粮 | fǎn xiāo liáng | grain bought by the state and resold to areas undergoing a grain shortage | |
| 缺电 | quē diàn | to have a power shortage | |
