Learn Chinese Characters

Meaning

be defeated; to defeat; loss

Chinese: 失败、战败;也表示毁坏、腐烂。

Hear the Four Tones

The same syllable “bai” becomes a different word in each tone. 败 is the 4th tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.

Stroke Order

Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.

Common Words

  • 失败shī bàito be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure
  • 打败dǎ bàito defeat; to overpower; to beat; to be defeated
  • 腐败fǔ bàicorruption; to corrupt; to rot; rotten
  • 败坏bài huàito ruin; to corrupt; to undermine
  • 大败dà bàito defeat; to inflict a defeat on sb

Example Sentence

这次比赛我们队不幸败了。Zhè cì bǐ sài wǒ men duì bú xìng bài le.Our team unfortunately lost this match.

Zhèthisnext in sequence比赛bǐ sàicompetition (sports etc)我们wǒ menweduìsquadron不幸bú xìngmisfortunebàito defeatle(completed action)