失
shī HSK3

lose

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approved by Prismcool · Jul 8, 2025, 04:40 AM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Jul 8, 2025, 04:40 AM

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Original meaning: leisure

Depicts a person with their hair loose. Based on the original meaning "leisure", now written as 佚. The meaning later shifted to "lose" and "fail".

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

Character origin
何景成《甲骨文字詂林補編》p.26
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica