失

to lose / to miss / to fail

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

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)

to lose / to forfeit

to lose / lost

to lose; to misplace

surefire; absolutely safe (idiom)

can still be considered (to be...) / may after all be accepted as

a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)

brain drain / outflow of talent

to be used up / to be exhausted

distraught / dazed

professional negligence

to miss sb by a narrow chance / to miss an opportunity

to seize the opportune moment / to lose no time

out of one's senses; shaken to the core; dazed