敗 (bài)
to defeat; to be defeated; to fail; to lose
How 敗 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 貝 — shell
- Traditional
- 敗
- Simplified
- 败
Components
- 貝 shell
- ⺙ knock
Common words using 敗
- 失敗 shībài
- to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments)
- 打敗 dǎbài
- to defeat; to overpower; to beat
- 擊敗 jībài
- to defeat; to beat
- 腐敗 fǔbài
- corruption; to corrupt; to rot
- 一敗塗地 yībàitúdì
- failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly; a crushing defeat; beaten and in a hopeless position
- 不敗之地 bùbàizhīdì
- invincible position
- 失敗者 shībàizhě
- loser
- 慘敗 cǎnbài
- to suffer a crushing defeat
- 成敗 chéngbài
- success or failure
- 挫敗 cuòbài
- to thwart; to foil (sb's plans); to defeat
- 敗壞 bàihuài
- to ruin; to corrupt; to undermine
- 敗筆 bàibǐ
- a faulty stroke in calligraphy or painting; a faulty expression in writing
敗 in a sentence
雖然失敗了，但他沒有放棄。
Suīrán shībài le, dàn tā méiyǒu fàngqì.
“Although he failed, he did not give up.”
How common is 敗?
敗 is the 860th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 86.6% of all running text.
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