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丧失

sàng shī

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 喪失

丧失 (sàng shī) means "to lose". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 丧失 means

1. to lose
2. to forfeit

The characters in 丧失

• 丧sàngto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)…
• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail

Example sentences

• 他完全丧失了责任心。
  Tā wánquán sàngshī le zérènxīn.
  He has completely lost all sense of duty.
• 他完全丧失了能成功的信心。
  Tā wánquán sàngshī le néng chénggōng de xìnxīn.
  He had lost all faith in his ability to succeed.
• 丧失健康比丧失金钱更糟糕。
  Losing your health is worse than losing your money.
• 看着自己的房子被烧得精光，他顿时丧失了理智。
  Kàn zhe zìjǐ de fángzi bèi shāo de jīngguāng, tā dùnshí sàngshī le lǐzhì.
  He lost his reason when he saw his house burn down.
• 错误和谎言我都可以忍受，但我不能原谅幽默感的彻底丧失。
  Cuòwù hé huǎngyán wǒ dōu kěyǐ rěnshòu, dàn wǒ bù néng yuánliàng yōumògǎn de chèdǐ sàngshī.
  Mistakes and lying can be worked through, but I cannot stand a complete lack of humour.

Words starting with 丧失

• 丧失殆尽sàng shī dài jìnto be used up; to be exhausted

Where 丧失 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chà–shǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sàng shī correctly.
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