败 (敗) bài
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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') -
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') -
bài
verb
to fail
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '败' 2; Unihan '敗') -
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) -
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') -
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) -
bài
adjective
worn
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '败' 6) -
bài
noun
a defeat
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '敗' n 1) -
bài
noun
failure
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '敗' n 2) -
bài
verb
to destroy / to wreck
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 破坏 (Guoyu '敗' v 3) -
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) -
bài
adjective
withered
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 消除 (Guoyu '敗' v 7)
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- 金玉其表,败絮其中(金玉其表,敗絮其中) gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside
- 不分胜败(不分勝敗) to not be able to distinguish who's winning
- 颓败(頹敗) to decay / to decline / to become corrupt
- 败北(敗北) to be routed (in a war) / to suffer defeat (in sports etc)
- 败家子(敗家子) spendthrift / wastrel / prodigal
- 败光(敗光) to squander one's fortune / to dissipate one's wealth
- 成败利钝(成敗利鈍) succeed or fail, sharp or blunt / advantages and disadvantages / success and failure
- 败局(敗局) lost game / losing battle
- 败笔(敗筆) a faulty stroke in calligraphy or painting / a faulty expression in writing
- 残花败柳(殘花敗柳) spoiled flower, withered willow / a fallen woman
- 败柳残花(敗柳殘花) broken flower, withered willow / fallen woman
- 成败(成敗) success or failure / success and failure ; to do something leading to failure
- 败退(敗退) to retreat in defeat
- 残兵败将(殘兵敗將) ruined army, defeated general / scattered remnants
- 善败之端(善敗之端) bringing good and bad
- 腐败罪(腐敗罪) the crime of corruption
- 成败在此一举(成敗在此一舉) win or lose, it all ends here / this is the moment to shine
- 贪污腐败(貪污腐敗) corruption
- 击败(擊敗) to defeat / to beat
- 战败(戰敗) to be efeated / to lose a war
- 败德(敗德) evil conduct
- 败军之际(敗軍之際) following the defeat
- 成也萧何,败也萧何(成也蕭何,敗也蕭何) raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He
- 倒败(倒敗) to collapse (of building)
- 着着失败(著著失敗) to fail at every step of the way
- 溃败(潰敗) utterly defeated / routed / crushed / to collapse (of army)
- 败类(敗類) scum of a community / degenerate
- 金玉其外,败絮其中(金玉其外,敗絮其中) gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside
- 成败论人(成敗論人) to judge people based on their success or failure
- 转败为胜(轉敗為勝) to turn defeat into victory / snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
- 政治腐败(政治腐敗) political corruption
- 骄者必败(驕者必敗) pride goes before a fall
- 失败主义(失敗主義) defeatism
- 窳败(窳敗) to ruin / corrupt
- 道德败坏(道德敗壞) vice / immorality / moral turpitude
- 一败涂地(一敗塗地) failed and wiped over the floor / to fail utterly / a crushing defeat / beaten and in a hopeless position
- 家败人亡(家敗人亡) the family declined and people died
- 酸败(酸敗) (milk) to turn sour / (meat, fish) to go off
- 气急败坏(氣急敗壞) flustered and exasperated / utterly discomfited
- 落败(落敗) to suffer a defeat / to fail / to fall behind
- 失败(失敗) to be defeated
- 衰败(衰敗) to decay
- 败坏(敗壞) to ruin / to corrupt / to undermine
- 连败(連敗) consecutive defeats / to lose several times in a row
- 屡战屡败(屢戰屢敗) to suffer defeat in every battle
- 大败(大敗) to defeat / to inflict a defeat on sb
- 败子回头(敗子回頭) return of the prodigal son
- 优胜劣败(優勝劣敗) survival of the fittest
- 败战(敗戰) to lose a war
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- 卷七 本紀第七 德宗 順宗 憲宗 Volume 7 Annals 7: Dezong, Shunzong, Xianzong New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 79
- 卷六 本紀第六 肅宗 代宗 Volume 6 Annals 6: Suzong, Daizong New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 77
- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 49
- 《十二諸侯年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Feudal Lords Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 47
- 《六國年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Six States Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 45
- 卷七十二 列傳第十: 婁室子:活女 謀衍 仲(本名石古乃),族子:海里 銀朮可子:彀英(本名撻懶) 母弟:麻吉(子:沃側) 弟:拔離速 習古乃 Volume 72 Biographies 10: Lou Shi and son: Huonu, Mou Yan, Zhong (formerly named Shigunai),descendant: Haili, Yin Paike and son: Gou Ying (formerly named Talan), Mu younger brother: Maji (son: Woce), younger brother: Ba Lisu, Xi Gunai History of Jin 金史 — count: 41
- 卷五 本紀第五 睿宗 玄宗 Volume 5 Annals 5: Ruizong, Xuanzong New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 40
- 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 38
- 卷十五 本紀第十五: 宣宗中 Volume 15 Annals 15: Xuanzong 2 History of Jin 金史 — count: 36
- 卷二百七十三 列傳第一百六十一 左良玉 高傑 祖寬 Volume 273 Biographies 161: Zuo Liangyu, Gao Jie, Zu Kuan History of Ming 明史 — count: 35
Collocations
- 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
- 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: 7
- 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
- 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