败 (bài) means Be defeated (to defeat). Below are 24 of the 30 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
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
失 败 之后要认真反思。
Shībài zhīhòu yào rènzhēn fǎnsī.
After a failure one should reflect seriously.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 反思
不要讥笑别人的失 败 。
Bú yào jīxiào biéren de shībài.
Do not sneer at other people's failures.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 讥笑
失 败 往往能带来启示。
Shībài wǎngwǎng néng dàilái qǐshì.
Failure often brings enlightenment.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 启示
失 败 了一次就别泄气。
Shībài le yí cì jiù bié xièqì.
Don't lose heart just because you failed once.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 泄气
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
这次失 败 对他打击很大。
Zhè cì shībài duì tā dǎjī hěn dà.
This failure was a great blow to him.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 打击
失 败 让他一度非常沮丧。
Shībài ràng tā yídù fēicháng jǔsàng.
The failure left him deeply dejected for a time.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 沮丧
我们应该正确看待失 败 。
Wǒmen yīnggāi zhèngquè kàndài shībài.
We should look at failure in the right way.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 看待
诉讼费用由 败 诉方承担。
Sùsòng fèiyòng yóu bàisù fāng chéngdān.
The costs of the suit are borne by the losing party.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 诉讼
他准备不足，以致失 败 。
Tā zhǔnbèi bùzú, yǐzhì shībài.
He was inadequately prepared, and so failed.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 以致
故事里的敌人最后失 败 了。
Gùshi lǐ de dírén zuìhòu shībài le.
The enemy in the story was defeated in the end.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 敌人
这次失 败 给了他一个教训。
Zhè cì shībài gěi le tā yí ge jiàoxun.
This failure taught him a lesson.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 教训
天气热，食物很容易腐 败 。
Tiānqì rè, shíwù hěn róngyì fǔbài.
In hot weather food spoils very easily.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 腐败
比赛时心态往往决定成 败 。
Bǐsài shí xīntài wǎngwǎng juédìng chéngbài.
In competition, mentality often decides success or failure.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 心态
这个国家正在大力反对腐 败 。
Zhège guójiā zhèngzài dàlì fǎnduì fǔbài.
This country is working hard against corruption.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 腐败
失 败 之后应该好好检讨原因。
Shībài zhīhòu yīnggāi hǎohāo jiǎntǎo yuányīn.
After a failure one should carefully examine the reasons.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 检讨
故事里的魔鬼最后被打 败 了。
Gùshi lǐ de móguǐ zuìhòu bèi dǎbài le.
The demon in the story was defeated in the end.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 魔鬼
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败 appears in 30 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 败
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How is 败 used in a sentence?
This page shows 30 sentences using 败 (bài, "Be defeated (to defeat)"), 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 败 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 败 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
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The dictionary page for 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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