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失败 (shī bài): meaning and stroke order

失败 (shī bài) means to be defeated, to lose, to fail (e.g. experiments), failure, defeat, CL:次.

失败

Simplified
失败
Traditional
失敗
Pinyin
shī bài

Stroke order of 失败

失

  • shī to lose; to miss
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

败

  • bài to defeat; to damage
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 敗

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 失败

  1. shī bài Traditional 失敗
    • to be defeated
    • to lose
    • to fail (e.g. experiments)
    • failure
    • defeat
    • CL:次[ci4]

Radicals of the characters

失
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes
败
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 贝 on the left, 攵 on the right

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.

失败 in our stories

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  • 张骞的任务失败了。回来的路上，他又被匈奴抓了一年多。

    Zhāng Qiān de rènwu shībài le huílai de lù shàng tā yòu bèi Xiōngnú zhuā le yì nián duō

    Zhang Qian's mission had failed. On the way back he was captured by the Xiongnu again for more than a year.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

  • 秦将白起故意假装失败，一路后退，赵括以为自己赢了，带着大军追了上去。

    Qín jiàng Bái Qǐ gùyì jiǎzhuāng shībài yílù hòutuì Zhào Kuò yǐwéi zìjǐ yíng le dài zhe dàjūn zhuī le shàngqu

    The Qin general Bai Qi deliberately feigned defeat and fell back all the way; Zhao Kuo thought he had won and pursued with his whole army.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 失败

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).