败 (敗) bài

  1. bài verb to defeat; to vanquish
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 打败 or 战胜 (Guoyu '敗' v 1; Kroll 2015 '敗' 1; NCCED '败' 4; Unihan '敗')
  2. bài verb to decline
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 衰落; for example, the idiom 家败人亡 'the family declined and people died' (Guoyu '敗' v 6; Kroll 2015 '敗' 1b; NCCED '败' 7; Unihan '敗')
  3. bài verb to fail
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (NCCED '败' 2; Unihan '敗')
  4. bài verb to rot; to spoil; to tarnish
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 腐烂 (Guoyu '敗' v 5; Kroll 2015 '敗' 2; NCCED '败' 1)
  5. bài verb to lose; to be defeated
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 被打败 (Guoyu '敗' v 2; NCCED '败' 3; Unihan '敗')
  6. bài verb to ruin; to damage
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 损坏 (Guoyu '敗' v 4; NCCED '败' 5)
  7. bài adjective worn
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (NCCED '败' 6)
  8. bài noun a defeat
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '敗' n 1)
  9. bài noun failure
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '敗' n 2)
  10. bài verb to destroy; to wreck
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 破坏 (Guoyu '敗' v 3)
  11. bài verb to dispel; to eliminate; to remove
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 消除 (Guoyu '敗' v 7)
  12. bài adjective withered
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 消除 (Guoyu '敗' v 7)

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  • 败狄 (敗狄) 以敗狄于采桑 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 10
  • 公败 (公敗) 公敗宋師于菅 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 9
  • 人败 (人敗) 鄭二公子以制人敗燕師于北制 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 8
  • 败楚 (敗楚) 鄭伯敗楚師于柳棼 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 5
  • 师大败 (師大敗) 息師大敗而還 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 5
  • 败宋 (敗宋) 敗宋師于黃 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 5
  • 师败 (師敗) 諸侯之師敗鄭徒兵 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 5
  • 败秦 (敗秦) 晉人及姜戎敗秦師于殽 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
  • 败戎 (敗戎) 鄭人大敗戎師 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
  • 欲败 (欲敗) 欲敗度 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 太甲中 Shang Shu - Tai Jia II — count: 3