失 shī
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
失败
shībài
to fail; failure
Characters in this word
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
Example phrases
- 这次我失败了。 Zhè cì wǒ shī bài le. I failed this time.
- 不要怕失败。 Bú yào pà shī bài. Do not be afraid of failure.
- 失败也没关系。 Shī bài yě méi guān xi. Failure is also okay.