失
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).
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
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
iron (metal) / arms / weapons / hard / strong / violent / unshakeable / determined / close / tight (slang)
lost / missing / forsaken / dissolute / (of a woman) beautiful / fault / offense / hermit / variant of 逸[yi4]
Words with 失
to sit and waste a good opportunity (idiom); to lose the chance
to lose Jingzhou due to carelessness (idiom) / to suffer a major setback due to negligence
lit. to lose Jingzhou due to carelessness (idiom) / fig. to suffer a major setback due to negligence
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
lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law
a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise / it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good / also written 塞翁失馬焉知非福|塞翁失马焉知非福