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- Traditional
- 失敗
- Measure word
- 次
Stroke order
失败 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.
- 失 — 5 strokes
- 败 — 8 strokes
Senses
- to be defeated
- to lose
- to fail (e.g. experiments)
- failure
- defeat
Characters in 失败
- 失 shī — to lose; to miss; to fail
- 败 bài — to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)
Character meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Example sentences
- 这次考试他失败了。Zhè cì kǎoshì tā shībài le.He failed this examination.
- 失败是成功之母。Shībài shì chénggōng zhī mǔ.Failure is the mother of success.
Related words
失败 is pronounced shībài and means “fail”.