# 負 — Lose

Frequency rank 427 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 衛 (Defense), less common than 単 (Simple).

- On’yomi: ふ
- Kun’yomi: ま、お、まか
- Radical: 貝 Shell (Kangxi 154)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A shellfish (shellfish) sits at the bottom while a prison (prison) presses from above — the shellfish trapped in a prison of debt loses everything, a total loss in the gamble of life.

In words:

- 負ける まける — to lose
- 負け まけ — defeat,loss,losing (a game)
- 負う おう — to bear;to owe

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