失败 (shībài) means Be defeated (fail). Below are 5 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
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
这次 失败 也是一种经验。
Zhè cì shībài yě shì yì zhǒng jīngyàn.
This failure is a kind of experience too.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 经验
From the travel phrasebook
Questions about 失败
How is 失败 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 失败 (shībài, "Be defeated (fail)"), 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.
Is 失败 an HSK word?
Yes — 失败 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
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The dictionary page for 失败 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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