失败(shī bài): to be defeated
to be defeated
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
Watch how each character of 失败 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.
Example sentences
How 失败 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
如果你不帮助我,我就失败了。
rú guǒ nǐ bù bāng zhù wǒ wǒ jiù shī bài le
Had you not helped me, I should have failed.
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