失
shī HSK3

lose

失 shī
to lose verb
to lose; to misplace; to no longer possess something
to fail to achieve verb
(bound form) to fail to meet a goal or desire; to be disappointed (as in 失望 shī​wàng or 失意 shī​yì)

他无法掩饰自己的失望之情。

tā wú​fǎ yǎn​shì zì​jǐ de shī wàng zhī qíng.

He could not hide his disappointment.

to lose control verbadjective
to lose control of oneself; to fail to restrain an action or emotion; to change from a normal state
to get lost verb
to lose one's way; to be unable to find; to go missing

有几个孩子失踪了？

yǒu jǐ​ge hái​zi shī zōng le?

How many children are missing?

mistake nounverb
(bound form) a mistake; a fault; a defect; a mishap
to violate verbadjective
to violate; to go against; to break a promise or social norm
to miss verb
to miss; to let slip; to fail to seize something like an opportunity or chance

Cross-References

Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
375th most common 596.1 per million
Movie subtitles
279th most common 601.8 per million appears in 92% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.5 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
44.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+5931

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)