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遗失

yí shī

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 遺失

遗失 (yí shī) means "to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 遗失 means

1. to lose; to leave behind (inadvertently)

The characters in 遗失

• 遗yí(bound form) to leave behind
• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail

Example sentences

• 汤姆遗失了他的钥匙。
  Tāng mǔ yíshī le tā de yàoshi.
  Tom has lost his keys.
• 汤姆找到了他以为已经遗失的钥匙。
  Tāngmǔ zhǎodào le tā yǐwéi yǐjīng yíshī de yàoshi.
  Tom found the key that he thought he'd lost.
• 凡能将他遗失的钱寻回者可得到酬金。
  Fán néng jiāng tā yíshī de qián xún huí zhě kědédào chóujīn.
  A reward will be paid to anyone who brings back the money that he lost.
• 我的雨伞遗失在公园里某个地方。我必须再买一把。
  I have lost my umbrella somewhere in the park. I have to buy one.
• 我遗失了收据，不得不给 IKEA 和银行的客服部门打电话。
  I lost my receipt and had to call customer service at both IKEA and the bank.

Sounds the same

Read yí shī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 移师to move troops to; (fig.) to move to; to shift to

Where 遗失 is taught

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

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