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失

失

See also: 先, 矢, and 夫

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

失 (radical 37 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹手人 (HQO), four-corner 25030, composition ⿰丿夫)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 249, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5844
  • Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 525, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5931

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 失

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 失
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (失) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
眣 *ʔr'aːd, *l'iːɡ, *l̥ʰiɡ
蛈 *l̥ʰiːɡ
迭 *l'iːɡ
跌 *l'iːɡ
瓞 *l'iːɡ
昳 *l'iːɡ
胅 *l'iːɡ
軼 *l'iːɡ, *liɡ
苵 *l'iːɡ
镻 *l'iːɡ
詄 *l'iːɡ
泆 *l'iːɡ, *liɡ
趃 *l'iːɡ
柣 *sl̥ʰiːɡ, *l'iɡ
抶 *l̥ʰiɡ
秩 *l'iɡ
帙 *l'iɡ
紩 *l'iɡ
袠 *l'iɡ
翐 *l'iɡ
妷 *l'iɡ
失 *hliɡ
佚 *liɡ
劮 *liɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 手 + 丿 – something (丿) falling from a hand (手).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 失
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 式質切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕit̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 失
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syit ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥i[t]/
English lose

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 失
Reading # 1/1
No. 11426
Phonetic
component		 失
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 失
Old
Chinese		 /*hliɡ/

Definitions

失

  1. to lose; to lose track of; to mislay
  2. to fail; to not succeed
  3. to breach; to violate
  4. to neglect; to miss
  5. mistake; fault; wrongdoing

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

失

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. mistake, disadvantage
  2. loss, lose

Readings

Korean

Hanja

失 • ‎(sil) (hangeul 실, revised sil, McCune-Reischauer sil, Yale sil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

失 (thất, thắt)

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