Mnemonic comic for 失
Mnemonic
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)
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
Character component without intrinsic meaning
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
Characters with 失 as component
order / orderliness / (classifier) ten years
alternately / repeatedly
to fall / to tumble / to trip / (of prices etc) to drop / Taiwan pr. [die2]
iron (metal) / arms / weapons / hard / strong / violent / unshakeable / determined / close / tight (slang)
surname Tie
old variant of 紩[zhi4]
old variant of 鐵|铁[tie3]
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 succeed through failure / to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback
to be born with a weak constitution and suffer from ill health during one's life / (fig.) to be problematic from the start, and get even worse over time
lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom) / fig. a blessing in disguise / it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
reflect a thousand times and you can still make a mistake (idiom); to err is human
primary progressive aphasia (PPA), speech disorder (sometimes related to dementia)