to defeat / to damage / to lose (to an opponent) / to fail / to wither

= + : Beelzebub threatens to hurt a crab with a sledgehammer should it not obey in the airplane's bathroom. The crab has no option but to declare defeat and obey Beelzebub's orders.

败 character breakdown

variant of 攴[pu1]

= 𠂉 + : Mnemonic symbol: the epitome of rapping and tapping is a sledge hammer. Petra pinguin (pu) forgot her key (𠂉) and know she's locked out of the space station (Ø1). At first she tries to open the lock with pliers (乂), but in the end she has no choice but to use the sledge hammer (攵).
surname Bei
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.

Characters with 败 as component

败 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 败

to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:次[ci4]
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
to turn defeat into victory (idiom); to turn the tide
both sides suffer (idiom) / neither side wins
victory or defeat / result
to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure / to fall at the last hurdle / snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
to collapse (of building)
to succeed through failure / to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback
troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
no arrogance in victory, no despair in defeat
(sports) to be trounced (by an opponent) / crushing defeat
the winners become princes and marquises; the losers are vilified as bandits (idiom) / history is written by the victors
see 勝者王侯敗者寇|胜者王侯败者寇[sheng4 zhe3 wang2 hou2 bai4 zhe3 kou4]
to oppose corruption / anti-graft (measures, policy etc)
to sit and await success or failure (idiom); to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides / to sit on the fence
to not be able to distinguish who's winning
see 優勝劣汰|优胜劣汰[you1 sheng4 lie4 tai4]

Sentences with 败

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