敗北
bài​běi

to suffer defeat

  • created sense approved 败北/敗北 · bài​běi · to suffer defeat — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    败北 / 敗北

    bài​běi

    to suffer defeat

    (literary) to be routed and flee (where [[北|北|bei3]] is the ancient form of [[背|背|bei4]] [back]); more generally, to lose a competition or suffer a setback

    败 (literal) → 败/敗 · bài · to be defeated 北 (literal) → 北 · běi · to be defeated

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense