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Kanji Detail for 敗 - "defeat"

敗

  • Meaning

    敗 means "defeat." Also associated with fail, ruin.

    1. Defeat - To lose a battle.

    2. Fail - To be unsuccessful.

    3. Ruin - To destroy; to damage.

  • Words using 敗

    • 腐敗 ふはい Listen decomposition; putrefaction; putrescence
    • 失敗 しっぱい Listen failure; mistake; blunder
    • 連敗 れんぱい Listen consecutive defeats; series of defeats
    • 敗戦 はいせん Listen defeat; lost battle; losing a war
    • 敗北 はいぼく Listen defeat; loss; reverse
    • 勝敗 しょうはい Listen victory or defeat; outcome (of a game, battle, etc.)
    • 惨敗 ざんぱい Listen ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten
    • 敗因 はいいん Listen cause of defeat

  • Four-character idioms with 敗

    • 優勝劣敗 ゆうしょうれっぱい Listen survival of the fittest
    • 堕落腐敗 だらくふはい Listen debasement; corruption; degradation
    • 腐敗堕落 ふはいだらく Listen debasement; corruption; degradation
    • 驕兵必敗 きょうへいひっぱい Listen defeat is inevitable for an overconfident army; being arrogant and overconfident inevitably leads to defeat; pride comes before a fall

  • Tattoo check: 敗

    • Verified meaning: defeat
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: fail, ruin
    • Traditionally considered inauspicious in names — Japanese readers may find it an unlucky choice. Check the meanings above carefully before using it on skin.

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    failure; defeat; reversal

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    be defeated, decline, fail

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To ruin. Such as 亡國敗家. Colloquially, a prodigal son is 敗子. | All spoiled things are 敗. Such as 魚餒肉敗. See (Analects). Also, fallen leaves are 敗葉. Wilted flowers are 花敗. | To collapse is 敗. Such as 頹垣敗壁. | To overturn. To rout. The opposite of victory. Now in games, the loser is 敗. Such as 勝固欣然, 敗亦可喜.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hai(ハイ) ハイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    yabu.reru(やぶ-れる) やぶ-れる

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    攴 攵 (bokunyo・bokuzukuri・tomata・nobun)

  • Related Keywords

    defeat fail ruin break damage deteriorate collapse debacle destroy disappointment downfall fiasco flop lose loss overthrow rout setback surrender unsuccessful vanquish

Sentences including 敗

  • The play was far from being a failure.

  • All our attempts failed.

  • Everybody fails once or twice.

  • He tried hard , but failed.

  • You are to blame for the failure.

  • It was a complete failure.

  • She will fail eventually.

  • Don't laugh at my failure.

  • Our effort ended in failure.

  • I tried my best , only to fail again.

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