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Translation

shi̅ = sh + Ø1: to lose / to miss / to fail

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.

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失 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
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husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
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(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
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Character component without intrinsic meaning
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big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
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Characters with 失 as component

order / orderliness / (classifier) ten years
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alternately / repeatedly
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to fall / to tumble / to trip / (of prices etc) to drop / Taiwan pr. [die2]
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iron (metal) / arms / weapons / hard / strong / violent / unshakeable / determined / close / tight (slang)
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old variant of 紩[zhi4]
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old variant of 鐵|铁[tie3]
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lost / missing / forsaken / dissolute / (of a woman) beautiful / fault / offense / hermit / variant of 逸[yi4]
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old variant of 迭[die2]
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Words with 失

to lose / lost
rash / impudent
reckless person / hothead
can still be considered (to be...) / may after all be accepted as
a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
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]
flustered / ruffled / disconcerted
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
semi-employed / partly employed / underemployed
primary progressive aphasia (PPA), speech disorder (sometimes related to dementia)
to seize the opportune moment / to lose no time
to miss sb by a narrow chance / to miss an opportunity
brain drain / outflow of talent
lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom) / fig. everyone makes mistakes / even the best fall down sometimes

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