丧 sàng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
丧失
sàngshī
to lose
Characters in this word
失 shī
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 他在事故中丧失了部分听力，但仍坚持工作。 Tā zài shìgù zhōng sàngshī le bùfen tīnglì, dàn réng jiānchí gōngzuò. He lost part of his hearing in the accident, but still kept working.
- 长时间不运动，身体会丧失活力。 Cháng shíjiān bú yùndòng, shēntǐ huì sàngshī huólì. If you don't exercise for a long time, your body loses its vitality.
- 他在比赛中连续失败，渐渐丧失了信心。 Tā zài bǐsài zhōng liánxù shībài, jiànjiàn sàngshī le xìnxīn. After failing repeatedly in competitions, he gradually lost confidence.
Related words
- 垂头丧气 chuítóusàngqì downcast; dejected; crestfallen
- 沮丧 jǔsàng dejected; disheartened
- 丧生 sàngshēng to lose one's life; to die
- 失去 shīqù to lose
- 消失 xiāoshī to disappear
- 失败 shībài to fail; failure
- 失望 shīwàng to be disappointed
- 失业 shīyè to lose one's job; unemployment
- 失误 shīwù mistake
- 损失 sǔnshī loss; damage
- 得不偿失 débùchángshī the loss outweighs the gain
- 得失 déshī gains and losses