失败 shībài▶ thất bại

Stroke order

失败 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 失 — 5 strokes
• 败 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. to be defeated
2. to lose
3. to fail (e.g. experiments)
4. failure
5. defeat

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

• 失望Thất vọng
• 失业Thất nghiệp
• 失去Mất, thua
• 失眠mất ngủ
• 损失mất mát; tổn thất
• 消失biến mất

失败 is pronounced shībài and means “thất bại”. HSK 4 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 失败 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.