失 — lose, error, fault

しつ失 lose

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+5931 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #447 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #908 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

lose
error
fault
disadvantage
loss

word

しつ shitsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

失(しつ) shitsu loss 失(しつ) 礼(れい) shitsurei rudeness 失(しつ) 業(ぎょう) shitsugyou unemployment 失(しつ) 望(ぼう) shitsubou disappointment 消(しょう) 失(しつ) shoushitsu disappearance 損(そん) 失(しつ) sonshitsu loss 過(か) 失(しつ) kashitsu negligence 喪(そう) 失(しつ) soushitsu loss

うしな ushina Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

失(うしな) う ushinau to lose 見(み) 失(うしな) う miushinau to lose sight of

しっ shi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

失(しっ) 敗(ぱい) shippai failure 失(しっ) 点(てん) shitten lost points 失(しっ) 格(かく) shikkaku disqualification 失(しっ) 踪(そう) shissou disappearance

Appears in idioms

安物買いの銭失い諺

Buying cheap, losing money

失敗は成功のもと諺

Failure is the foundation of success

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

丿 slash

おっと夫 husband

Used as component in (3)

てつ鉄 iron ちつ秩 regularity てつ迭 transfer

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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