漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
失: lose, error
Also: fault, disadvantage, loss
丿 carries the meaning · 夫 is drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
シツshitsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 失礼するしつれいするbe impolite
- 失業するしつぎょうするbecome unemployed
- 失望するしつぼうするbe disappointed
- 失敗するしっぱいするfail
- 失言しつげんimproper words
- 喪失そうしつloss
- 過失かしつmistake, error, accident
うしなうushinau · kun'yomi · on its own
- 失ううしなうlose
Also read うせる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)手 + 乙
Pictogram (象形) depicting a footprint of someone that has fallen surrounded by drops of blood.
Source: Wiktionary, 失 (rev. 92687913), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stretch out wide! This radical represents anything that is grand, important, or massive in scale.”
Connections
Also built on husband (夫)
失 gives its sound to
The family reading is テツ (tetsu). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Also read シツ
10 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shī
Same form: 失 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 失 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 失 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.