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失败

shī bài

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 失敗 Measure word 次

失败 (shī bài) means "to be defeated". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 失败 means

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

The characters in 失败

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 败bàito defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)

Example sentences

• 你会失败。
  You will fail.
• 悲哉失败者!
  Bēi zāi shībàizhě!
  Woe to the vanquished.
• 实验失败了。
  That experiment was a failure.
• 注意别失败。
  Take care not to fail.
• 汤姆失败了。
  Tom failed.
• 你注定失败。
  You're bound to fail.

Words starting with 失败

• 失败者shī bài zhěloser
• 失败主义shī bài zhǔ yìdefeatism
• 失败是成功之母shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔFailure is the mother of success.

Words containing 失败

• 着着失败zhāo zhāo shī bàito fail at every step of the way; Taiwan pr. zhuó zhuó shī bài
• 以失败而告终yǐ shī bài ér gào zhōngto succeed through failure; to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback

Where 失败 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Growth, goals & success (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shī bài correctly.
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