失手 shīshǒu
shīshǒu
noun
a slip; miscalculation; unwise move; accidentally; by mistake; to lose control; to be defeated
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '失手')
Contained in
- 人有失手,马有失蹄(人有失手,馬有失蹄) just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble; everyone makes mistakes
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 86 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 4
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 99 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 76 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第三十九回 Chapter 39 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 25 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 8 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 卷八十二下 方術列傳 Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 41 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第九十四回 Chapter 94 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
Collocations
- 一时失手 (一時失手) 奴家一時失手 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十四回 Chapter 24 — count: 4
- 失手碰 (失手碰) 酒碗失手碰在腦袋上的 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 86 — count: 2
- 失手打 (失手打) 仔細失手打了這瓷杯 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 41 — count: 2
- 失手打破 (失手打破) 失手打破玉玻璃 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二十二回 Chapter 22 — count: 2