败 bài
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- Made of
- 贝 sea shell 攵 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
败
bài
to lose
Character
Example phrases
- 我们败了。 Wǒmen bài le. Our team lost.
- 这次他败了。 Zhè cì tā bài le. He lost this time.
- 他败给我。 Tā bài gěi wǒ. He lost to me.