败

Traditional (Taiwan): 敗

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bài ㄅㄞˋ

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

Classifiers (measure words)

败了一局 jú lose one game
败了一场 cháng lose one contest
败了一次 cì lose once

Other words read bài

In the same tone

拜 bài bow to
呗 bài chant
稗 bài barnyard millet
韛 bài bellows

bai with other tones

白 bái white
摆 bǎi arrange
百 bǎi hundred
伯 bǎi one hundred
柏 bǎi cedar
掰 bāi break off
佰 bǎi hundred
捭 bǎi spread out
竡 bǎi hectoliter

All 14 words read bai in any tone

The stroke order and parts of 败

部首 radical: 贝
笔画 strokes: 8, with 4 after the 部首
结构 structure: 左右结构
偏旁 parts: 贝攵
形旁 meaning: 攵
声旁 sound: 贝

Practise writing 败this character

Trace 败, then write it from memory. Each stage is passed five times.

Writing drills that include 败: HSK 4 vocabulary, part 8: writing drill 5 of 7, HSK 6 vocabulary, part 5: writing drill 8 of 10, HSK 7-9 vocabulary, part 6: writing drill 8 of 9 and 4 more.

Potential verbal descriptions

失(shī)败(bài)的(de)败(bài) shībài de bài ㄕㄅㄞˋ ˙ㄉㄜㄅㄞˋ
贝(bèi)字(zì)旁(páng)的(de)败(bài) bèi zì páng de bài ㄅㄟˋ ㄗˋ ㄆㄤˊ ˙ㄉㄜㄅㄞˋ

Words with 败

Starting with 败

败坏 bàihuài ruin
败仗 bàizhàng lost battle
败退 bàituì retreat in defeat
败露 bàilù fall through and stand exposed
败亡 bàiwáng be defeated and dispersed
败局 bàijú lost game
败类 bàilèi degenerate
败北 bàiběi be routed
败家子 bàijiāzǐ spendthrift
败血症 bàixuèzhèng septicaemia
败阵 bàizhèn be defeated on the battlefield
败绩 bàijì be utterly defeated

All 28 words starting with 败

Ending with 败

失败 shībài lose
腐败 fǔbài corruption
击败 jībài defeat
打败 dǎbài defeat
大败 dàbài defeat
战败 zhànbài lose a war
破败 pòbài defeat
胜败 shèngbài victory or defeat
挫败 cuòbài thwart
成败 chéngbài success or failure
惨败 cǎnbài suffer a crushing defeat
溃败 kuìbài be routed

All 33 words ending with 败

Containing 败

气急败坏 qìjíbàihuài flustered and exasperated
一败涂地 yībàitúdì lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies
节节败退 jiéjiébàituì retreat again and again in defeat
失败者 shībàizhě loser
两败俱伤 liǎngbàijùshāng both sides suffer
身败名裂 shēnbàimíngliè lose one's standing
反败为胜 fǎnbàiwéishèng turn the tide
功败垂成 gōngbàichuíchéng last-minute failure
转败为胜 zhuànbàiwéishèng turn defeat into victory
伤风败俗 shāngfēngbàisú offending public morals
兵败如山倒 bīngbàirúshāndǎo beaten army in total collapse
成败利钝 chéngbàilìdùn advantages and disadvantages

All 29 words containing 败

Example sentences and grammar articles using 败

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