失去

Character by character

• 失shī5 strokesHSK 3lose; make mistake, neglect
• 去qù5 strokesHSK 1go away, leave, depart

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 我不想失去你。

  Wǒ bù xiǎng shī qù nǐ

  I don't want to lose you.

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• 我们失去了它。

  Wǒ men shī qù le tā

  We lost it.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 失去. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 去qùHSK 1

  to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

• 过去guò qùHSK 2

  (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by

• 出去chū qùHSK 1

  to go out

• 下去xià qùHSK 3

  to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw

• 去年qù niánHSK 1

  last year

• 回去huí quHSK 1

  to return; to go back

• 消失xiāo shīHSK 3

  to disappear; to fade away

• 失败shī bàiHSK 4

  to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat

• 进去jìn qùHSK 1

  to go in

• 损失sǔn shīHSK 5

  loss; damage; to lose; to suffer damage

• 失望shī wàngHSK 4

  disappointed; to lose hope; to despair

• 上去shàng qùHSK 3

  to go up

• 看上去kàn shang quHSK 3

  it would appear; it seems (that)

• 失踪shī zōngHSK 7

  to be missing; to disappear; unaccounted for

• 去世qù shìHSK 3

  to pass away; to die

• 失误shī wùHSK 5

  lapse; mistake; to make a mistake; fault; service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)

• 失业shī yèHSK 4

  unemployment; to lose one's job

• 丧失sàng shīHSK 6

  to lose; to forfeit

• 丢失diū shīHSK 7

  to lose; to misplace

• 迷失mí shīHSK 7

  to lose (one's bearings); to get lost

• 失控shī kòngHSK 7

  to go out of control

• 失眠shī miánHSK 7

  to suffer from insomnia

• 失落shī luòHSK 7

  to lose (sth); to drop (sth); to feel a sense of loss; frustrated; disappointment; loss

• 去掉qù diàoHSK 6

  to get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract