失 (shī) means To lose (fail - miss - break). Below are 24 of the 78 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
失 败是成功之母。
Shībài shì chénggōng zhī mǔ.
Failure is the mother of success.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 失败
失 败了也别灰心。
Shībài le yě bié huī xīn.
Do not lose heart even if you fail.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 灰心
他最近常常 失 眠。
Tā zuìjìn chángcháng shīmián.
He often cannot sleep lately.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 失眠
公司的损 失 不大。
Gōngsī de sǔnshī bú dà.
The company's losses are not large.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 损失
别 失 望，还有机会。
Bié shīwàng, hái yǒu jīhuì.
Do not lose heart; there is still a chance.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 失望
这就是 失 败的原因。
Zhè jiù shì shībài de yuányīn.
This is exactly why it failed.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 原因
失 败后他有点消极。
Shībài hòu tā yǒudiǎn xiāojí.
After failing he became a little dispirited.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 消极
船慢慢消 失 在雾里。
Chuán mànmàn xiāoshī zài wù lǐ.
The boat slowly disappeared into the fog.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 消失
他并没有丧 失 信心。
Tā bìng méiyǒu sàngshī xìnxīn.
He has not lost confidence at all.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 丧失
谁都难免出现 失 误。
Shéi dōu nánmiǎn chūxiàn shīwù.
Nobody can avoid making mistakes.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 失误
他已经 失 踪三天了。
Tā yǐjīng shī zōng sān tiān le.
He has been missing for three days.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 失踪
损 失 已经无法挽回。
Sǔnshī yǐjīng wúfǎ wǎnhuí.
The loss can no longer be recovered.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 挽回
这点损 失 微不足道。
Zhè diǎn sǔnshī wēi bù zú dào.
This small loss is negligible.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 微不足道
这个结果让我很 失 望。
Zhège jiéguǒ ràng wǒ hěn shīwàng.
This result disappointed me.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 失望
他赔偿了对方的损 失 。
Tā péicháng le duìfāng de sǔnshī.
He compensated the other party for the loss.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 赔偿
他 失 去了平衡摔倒了。
Tā shīqù le pínghéng shuāi dǎo le.
He lost his balance and fell.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 平衡
喝咖啡容易让人 失 眠。
Hē kāfēi róngyì ràng rén shīmián.
Drinking coffee easily causes sleeplessness.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 失眠
这次事故造成了损 失 。
Zhè cì shìgù zàochéng le sǔnshī.
This accident caused losses.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 损失
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失 appears in 78 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 失
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Questions about 失
How is 失 used in a sentence?
This page shows 78 sentences using 失 (shī, "To lose (fail - miss - break)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 失 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 失 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 失?
The dictionary page for 失 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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