失 - Mandarin word #5115

失

shī

Traditional: 失

#5115 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

to lose; to fail (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

失

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He lost a good friend.

包bāo。

The wallet suddenly vanished.

。

We mustn't lose hope.

。

He lost a good opportunity.

。

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".

失去

to lose, to be deprived of

消失

to disappear, to vanish

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 失.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 103.