to lose / to miss / to fail

= 𠂉 + : Sherlock (sh) locked himself out of the space station (Ø1)! He lost (失) his key (𠂉)! After he was floating in front of the space station for an eternity, a robot (大) came by with a lost+found box (失) which contained his lost key.

失 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a construction worker

= + : In front of the space station, Neanderthal Man and a construction worker are busy exchanging a broken capacitor. When Frieda Fox floats by they whistle at her because they think she's hot, but Frieda is just annoyed.
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠂉 = 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 𠂉 looks like a key.

Imagine a banana you can't open without putting a key into each of the holes of a flute which is painted on its peel.
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

= + : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.

Characters with 失 as component

surname Tie

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) is looking for a new iron weapon (铁) to defend herself. So far she was using a golden harpoon (钅), but the gold is just too soft. Inside of the elevator (e3) she is searching a lost+found box with her golden harpoon for an iron weapon (铁).
iron (metal) / arms / weapons / hard / strong / violent / unshakeable / determined / close / tight (slang)

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) is looking for a new iron weapon (铁) to defend herself. So far she was using a golden harpoon (钅), but the gold is just too soft. Inside of the elevator (e3) she is searching a lost+found box with her golden harpoon for an iron weapon (铁).
to fall / to tumble / to trip / (of prices etc) to drop / Taiwan pr. [die2]

= + : In front of the elevator (e1) Dorothy Gale (di) tumbles (跌) over a cowboy boot (⻊) and falls (跌) into a lost+found box (失).
order / orderliness / (classifier) ten years

= + : James II of England (zh) found a bowl of cereals (禾) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). To put everything in order (秩), he pours the bowl into the next lost+found box (失).
alternately / repeatedly
old variant of 鐵|铁[tie3]
old variant of 紩[zhi4]
lost / missing / forsaken / dissolute / (of a woman) beautiful / fault / offense / hermit / variant of 逸[yi4]
old variant of 迭[die2]
surname Yi

Words with 失

to lose / lost
to lose; to misplace
can still be considered (to be...) / may after all be accepted as
to seize the opportune moment / to lose no time
lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom) / fig. everyone makes mistakes / even the best fall down sometimes
to succeed through failure / to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback
see 作戰失蹤人員|作战失踪人员[zuo4 zhan4 shi1 zong1 ren2 yuan2]
to miss sb by a narrow chance / to miss an opportunity
brain drain / outflow of talent

Sentences with 失

zhè
yàng
wèi
miǎn
dé
bù
cháng
shi̅