shī
lose
Original meaning:
stumble
Depicts a person falling. Based on the original meaning "stumble", now written as 跌. The meaning later shifted to "fail" and "lose".
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥i[t] | syit | shī | lose |
HSK level 3
Appears in 92.2794% of movies
279th most common character in movies
375th most common character in books
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+5931 |
Shuowen | “失,縱也。从手,乙聲。” |
季旭昇《說文新證》p.846