失

失 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹手人 (HQO), four-corner 2503₀, composition ⿰丿夫 or ⿻𠂉大)

• 秩 帙
• 鉄 铁 (in simplified form)

• KangXi: 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

Historical forms of the character 失
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 手 + 丿 – something (丿) falling from a hand (手).

Cognate with 佚 (OC *liɡ, “to escape; to lose”), 逸 (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).

失

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" (𝍐)

失

1. Alternative form of 逸 (yì, “to flee; to run away”).
2. Alternative form of 佚 (yì, “to ignore; indulgent”).

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. mistake, disadvantage
2. loss, lose

• Go-on: しち (shichi)
• Kan-on: しつ (shitsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: うしなう (ushinau, 失う, Jōyō)^{←うしなふ (usinafu, 失ふ, historical)}; なくす (nakusu, 失くす); うせる (useru, 失せる)

失 (eumhun 잃을 실 (ireul sil))

1. Hanja form^? of 실 (“loss”).

• 실직 (失職, siljik, “losing a job; unemployment”)

失: Hán Nôm readings: thất, thắt

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