IDENTITY
失shīto lose; to fail
HSK 3Top 250
CORE MEANING
to lose; to fail
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to loseHSK3
- 2.to fail; to missHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 大big radical (dà)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- ⿰丿夫
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
失败shībàito fail
失望shīwàngdisappointed
失去shīqùto lose
Graded examples
失败是成功之母。Shībài shì chénggōng zhī mǔ.HSK4
Failure is the mother of success.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 夫
LEARNING
Memory aid
A hand letting the thing slip away (丿 over 夫) — losing.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- 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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