失
shī HSK3

lose

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approved by Prismcool · Nov 1, 2024, 04:09 AM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Nov 1, 2024, 04:09 AM

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Original meaning: to hide from view

Depicts a person (元) hiding behind a plant (屮). Based on the original meaning "to hide from view", now written as 佚. The meaning later shifted to "fail" and "lose".

Components

屮
屮 Iconic component
元
元 Iconic component

Depicts a person.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 元 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsyitl̥i[t] lose

說文解字

《說文》：“失，縱也。从手，乙聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)