Home / Frequency / 失

失

Level IV of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 411 / 2,608

Fault

On’yomi
しつ
Kun’yomi
うしな
Radical
大 Big (Kangxi 37)

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

More common than 門 (Gates), less common than 姿 (Figure).

The character 失 (fault) looks like a person dropping something — an arm reaching out as an object slips away, a fault, a mistake, a loss.

In words

失敗 しっぱい failure,mistakeN4
失う うしなう to lose,to part withN3
失望 しつぼう disappointment,despairN3

失 is rank 411 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

Study 失 →