失 shī

1. shī verb to lose
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '失'; Guoyu '失' v 1; Kroll 2015 '失' 1, p. 410; Unihan '失'; XHZD '失' 1, p. 674)
2. shī verb to violate; to go against the norm
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 失 is synonymous with 违背 in this sense (Guoyu '失' v 4; XHZD '失' 5, p. 674)
3. shī verb to fail; to miss out
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '失' 2, p. 410; XHZD '失' 3, p. 674)
4. shī verb to be lost
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 失 is synonymous with 迷失 in this sense (Guoyu '失' v 3)
5. shī verb to make a mistake
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 失 is synonymous with 过错 or 错误 in this sense (Guoyu '失' v 2; Kroll 2015 '失' 2a, p. 410; Unihan '失'; XHZD '失' 4, p. 674)
6. shī verb to let go of
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (XHZD '失' 2, p. 674)

Contained in

• 丧失(喪失) to lose; to abandon
• 迷失方向 lose our bearings
• 过失(過失) defect; fault ; negligence; delinquency
• 循环不失(循環不失) the cycle never vanishes
• 失职(失職) to lose one's job; unemployment; not to fulfill one's obligations; to neglect one's job; dereliction of duty
• 失魂落魄 dazed; beside oneself
• 失败是成功之母(失敗是成功之母) Failure is the mother of success.
• 利害得失 advantages and disadvantages gained or lost
• 有失 to fail or lose
• 失道 to lose the way; unjust; moral failing
• 单方过失碰撞(單方過失碰撞) collision in which only one party is at fault
• 坐失良机(坐失良機) to sit and waste a good opportunity; to lose the chance
• 失悔 to regret; to feel remorse
• 以失败而告终(以失敗而告終) to succeed through failure; to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback
• 失约(失約) to miss an appointment
• 失业(失業) to be unemployed ; unemployment
• 怅然若失(悵然若失) perplexed; frustrated
• 失魂 to panic
• 万无一失(萬無一失) absolutely safe
• 失调电压(失調電壓) offset voltage
• 失理 to fail in one's reasoning
• 失明 to lose one's eyesight; to become blind; blindness
• 有失身份 to be beneath one's dignity
• 坐失 to let something slip by; to miss an opportunity
• 知者不失人 a wise person does not err in regard to men
• 失忆症(失憶症) amnesia
• 失面子 to lose face; to be humiliated
• 失怙 to loose one's father
• 差之毫厘，失之千里(差之毫釐，失之千里) the slightest difference leads to a great loss
• 失道寡助 an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius)
• 失重 weightlessness
• 损失(損失) a loss ; to lose
• 失语症(失語症) aphasia or aphemia (loss of language)
• 失地 to lose land; dispossessed
• 失色 to lose color; to turn pale
• 不失为(不失為) can still be considered (to be...); may after all be accepted as
• 哑然失笑(啞然失笑) to laugh involuntarily
• 惘然若失 to be frustrated as though having lost something; to be at a loss; perplexed; frustrated
• 失之毫厘，差之千里(失之毫釐，差之千里) a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake; a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses
• 有所得必有所失 there is no gain without a loss; there is no such thing as a free meal
• 失饥伤饱(失飢傷飽) to become sick from eating bad food
• 失去 to lose
• 因小失大 to save a little only to lose a lot
• 机不可失，时不再来(機不可失，時不再來) Opportunity knocks but once.
• 有得有失 you win some, you lose some; gains and losses; trade-off
• 成败得失(成敗得失) lit. success and failure, the gains and losses (idiom); fig. to weigh up various factors
• 无主失物(無主失物) unclaimed lost property
• 走失 lost; missing; to lose (sb in one's charge); to get lost; to wander away; to lose (flavor, freshness, shape, hair, one's good looks etc); to lose meaning (in translation)
• 错失时机(錯失時機) miss an opportunity
• 失而复得(失而復得) to lose and then regain something

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怅然自失

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Truncated for common words

• Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 65
• Full Text Canon of Supreme Mystery 太玄經 — count: 50
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 40
• 卷二十九　本紀第二十九: 泰定帝一 Volume 29 Annals 29: Emperor Taiding 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 38
• 卷一百九十四下 列傳第一百四十四下: 突厥下 Volume 194 Biographies 144: Tujie 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 36
• 卷三百二十七 列傳第二百十五 外國八 韃靼 Volume 327 Biographies 215: Foreign States 8 History of Ming 明史 — count: 34
• 卷一百三十九 列傳第八十九: 陸贄 Volume 139 Biographies 89: Lu Zhi Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 32
• 卷三十二　本紀第三十二: 文宗一 Volume 32 Annals 32: Wenzong 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 32
• 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 31
• 《天官書》 Astronomy Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 30

Collocations

• 失诸侯 (失諸侯) 今失諸侯 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 7
• 不可失 (不可失) 善不可失 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 6
• 失位 (失位) 夫人失位而作是詩也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧綠衣 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Lu Yi — count: 6
• 敢失 (敢失) 殷王亦罔敢失帝 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 多士 Zhou Shu - Numerous Officers — count: 5
• 失政 (失政) 鄭莊公失政刑矣 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 5
• 失守 (失守) 失守宗廟 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 5
• 失官 (失官) 失官 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 5
• 失亲 (失親) 輕則失親 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 失国 (失國) 終又讓他失國喪威嚴 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧大明 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Da Ming — count: 4
• 失德 (失德) 民之失德 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧伐木 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Fa Mu — count: 4