失 (shī): meaning and stroke order
失 (shī) means to lose, to miss, to fail.
失
- Simplified
- 失
- Traditional
- 失 (same form)
- Pinyin
- shī
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Stroke order of 失
失
- shī to lose; to miss
- 5 strokes
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Meaning of 失
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shī
- to lose
- to miss
- to fail
Radical and structure
- 失
- Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 失
- 失落 shī luò to lose (sth); to drop (sth)
- 失去 shī qù to lose
- 消失 xiāo shī to disappear; to fade away
- 失败 shī bài to be defeated; to lose
- 损失 sǔn shī loss; damage
- 塞翁失马 sài wēng shī mǎ lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise
- 失业 shī yè unemployment; to lose one's job
- 失望 shī wàng disappointed; to lose hope
- 失误 shī wù lapse; mistake
- 失眠 shī mián to suffer from insomnia
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).