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Mythic Mandarin

失去 (shī qù): meaning and stroke order

失去 (shī qù) means to lose.

失去

Simplified
失去
Traditional
失去 (same form)
Pinyin
shī qù

Stroke order of 失去

失

  • shī to lose; to miss
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

去

  • qù to go; to go to (a place)
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 失去

  1. shī qù
    • to lose

Radicals of the characters

失
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes
去
Radical 厶 (Kangxi radical 28) · 5 strokes · 土 on top, 厶 below

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.

失去 in our stories

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  • 他们在最后一丝天光消失前，看到了营地的帐篷。玛尔塔被直升机送到了加德满都的医院，保住了性命，却失去了三根手指。

    tāmen zài zuìhòu yì sī tiānguāng xiāoshī qián kàndào le yíngdì de zhàngpeng Mǎ'ěrtǎ bèi zhíshēngjī sòng dào le Jiādémǎndū de yīyuàn bǎozhù le xìngmìng què shīqù le sān gēn shǒuzhǐ

    Before the last glimmer of daylight faded they saw the tents of the camp. Marta was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Kathmandu; her life was saved, though she lost three fingers.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 失去

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).