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U+5931, 失
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5931

[U+5930]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5932]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 37, +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹手人 (HQO), four-corner 25030, composition 丿 or 𠂉)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 249, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5844
  • Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 525, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5931
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Pictogram (象形) depicting a footprint of someone that has fallen surrounded by drops of blood (Ji Xusheng, 2004).

Alternatively, according to Shuowen, Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): + — something falling from a hand (). However, the original form doesn't show any hand.

Etymology

Cognate with (OC *liɡ, “to escape; to lose”), (OC *lid, “to escape; at ease”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Cogtse Situ [Term?] (ka-ʃlə̂k, to fall (from hand)), Japhug ɕlɯɣ (to fall; to slip) (Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Note also Thai เล็ดลอด (lét-lɔ̂ɔt, to sneak; to escape by stealth) (Manomaivibool, 1975).

Pronunciation 1


Note: sêg4 - Jieyang.
Note:
  • she6 - vernacular;
  • shr6 - literary.

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    Definitions

    1. to lose; to lose track of; to mislay
    2. to fail; to not succeed
    3. to breach; to violate
    4. to neglect; to miss
    5. mistake; fault; wrongdoing
    6. 75th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "failure" (𝍐)

    Compounds

    Pronunciation 2


    Definitions

    1. alternative form of (, to flee; to run away)
    2. alternative form of (to ignore; indulgent)
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    Japanese

    Kanji

    (Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

    1. mistake, disadvantage
    2. loss, lose

    Readings

    Korean

    Hanja

    (eumhun 잃을 (ireul sil))

    1. hanja form? of (loss)

    Compounds

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    : Hán Nôm readings: thất, thắt

    Verb

    (thất)

    1. chữ Hán form of thất
      1. to lose something
      2. to make a mistake; to blunder; to contravene; to infringe; to violate
      3. to miss

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