Fail in Chinese
to fail · HSK 4
失败
- 失 to lose
- 败 to be defeated
这次考试他又失败了。 He failed the exam again this time.
Other ways to say fail
More words with 失 or 败
How do you say fail in Chinese?
Fail in Chinese is 失败 (shī bài). You can also say 败 (bài).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.