失事 shīshì▶ va chạm

Stroke order

失事 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 失 — 5 strokes
• 事 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. (of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc)
2. to mess things up

Related words

• 丧失mất; thua
• 事业sự nghiệp
• 事件Sự kiện
• 事务Vụ việc; công việc
• 事态tình hình; hoàn cảnh
• 事故Tai nạn

失事 is pronounced shīshì and means “va chạm”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 失事 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.