失

See also: 先, 矢, and 夫

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

失 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹手人 (HQO), four-corner 2503₀, composition ⿰丿夫 or ⿻𠂉大)

Derived characters

• 秩 帙
• 鉄 铁 (in simplified form)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 249, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5844
• Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 525, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5931

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		失

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 失
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (失) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
眣	*ʔr'aːd, *l'iːɡ, *l̥ʰiɡ
蛈	*l̥ʰiːɡ
迭	*l'iːɡ
跌	*l'iːɡ
瓞	*l'iːɡ
昳	*l'iːɡ
胅	*l'iːɡ
軼	*l'iːɡ, *liɡ
苵	*l'iːɡ
镻	*l'iːɡ
詄	*l'iːɡ
泆	*l'iːɡ, *liɡ
趃	*l'iːɡ
柣	*sl̥ʰiːɡ, *l'iɡ
抶	*l̥ʰiɡ
秩	*l'iɡ
帙	*l'iɡ
紩	*l'iɡ
袠	*l'iɡ
翐	*l'iɡ
妷	*l'iɡ
失	*hliɡ
佚	*liɡ
劮	*liɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 手 + 丿 – something (丿) falling from a hand (手).

Etymology

Cognate with 佚 (OC *liɡ, “to escape; to lose”), 逸 (OC *lid, “to escape; at ease”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Note also Thai เล็ดลอด (lét-lɔ̂ɔt, “to sneak; to escape by stealth”) (Manomaivibool, 1975).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 失

1. to lose; to lose track of; to mislay
2. to fail; to not succeed
3. to breach; to violate
4. to neglect; to miss
5. mistake; fault; wrongdoing
6. 75th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "failure" (𝍐)

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Japanese

Kanji

失

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. mistake, disadvantage
2. loss, lose

Readings

• Go-on: しち (shichi)
• Kan-on: しつ (shitsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: うしなう (ushinau, 失う, Jōyō)^{←うしなふ (usinafu, 失ふ, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

失 • (sil) (hangeul 실, revised sil, McCune–Reischauer sil, Yale sil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 失 (thất, thắt)

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