IDENTITY
败bàito lose; to fail
HSK 5Top 800
CORE MEANING
to lose; to fail
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to lose; to be defeatedHSK5
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 贝shell radical (bèi)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰贝攵
- goods; the stakes
- striking
USAGE
Common words
失败shībàito fail
打败dǎbàito defeat
Graded examples
失败是成功之母。Shībài shì chénggōng zhī mǔ.HSK5
Failure is the mother of success.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 财
LEARNING
Memory aid
Goods (贝) struck down (攵) — the stakes lost, defeat. (From 敗.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #800
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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