失 shī
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
失传
shīchuán
to be lost; no longer handed down
Characters in this word
传 chuán
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 专 concentrated, specialized
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 许多地方戏曲的唱腔濒临失传，原因并不只是年轻人缺乏兴趣。 Xǔduō dìfāng xìqǔ de chàngqiāng bīnlín shīchuán, yuányīn bìng bù zhǐ shì niánqīngrén quēfá xìngqù. Many local opera singing styles are on the verge of being lost, and the reason is not merely young people's lack of interest.
- 这门手艺已经失传了，可惜没有人记录下来。 Zhè mén shǒuyì yǐjīng shīchuán le, kěxī méiyǒu rén jìlù xiàlái. This craft has already been lost; it is a pity no one wrote it down.
- 祖传的药方如果没人继承，就会慢慢失传。 Zǔchuán de yàofāng rúguǒ méi rén jìchéng, jiù huì mànmàn shīchuán. If no one takes over the family's old remedy recipe, it will gradually be lost.
Related words
- 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
- 丧失 sàngshī to lose
- 得不偿失 débùchángshī the loss outweighs the gain
- 得失 déshī gains and losses
- 挂失 guàshī to report the loss of something
- 过失 guòshī fault; negligence; mistake