失败(shī bài)

HSK 42 charactersTrad. 失敗

to be defeated

Character breakdown

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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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