(shī) - to lose; to fail (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
shīTraditional: 失
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Translation
to lose; to fail (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character showing something slipping from a hand, hence to lose, to miss or to let slip.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- an object slipping from the hand, depicting loss
Stroke order
失
Examples
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He lost a good friend.
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The wallet suddenly vanished.
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We mustn't lose hope.
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He lost a good opportunity.
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She broke down in tears.
失 (shī) is a bound morpheme meaning to lose or to fail, appearing in 失去 (shī qù) "to lose" and 消失 (xiāo shī) "to disappear".
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 失.
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