失

失 U+5931, 失 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5931 ← 夰 [U+5930] CJK Unified Ideographs 夲 → [U+5932]

Stroke order

失 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹手人 (HQO), four-corner 2503₀, composition ⿰丿夫 or ⿻𠂉大)

• 秩 帙
• 鉄 铁 (in simplified form)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 249, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5844
• Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 525, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5931

simp. and trad.		失

Pictogram (象形) depicting a footprint of someone that has fallen surrounded by drops of blood (Ji Xusheng, 2004).

Alternatively, according to Shuowen, Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 手 + 乙 — something falling from a hand (手). However, the original form doesn't show any hand.

Cognate with 佚 (OC *liɡ, “to escape; to lose”), 逸 (OC *lid, “to escape; at ease”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Cogtse Situ [Term?] (ka-ʃlə̂k, “to fall (from hand)”), Japhug ɕlɯɣ (“to fall; to slip”) (Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Note also Thai เล็ดลอด (lét-lɔ̂ɔt, “to sneak; to escape by stealth”) (Manomaivibool, 1975).

失

1. to lose; to lose track of; to mislay
2. to fail; to not succeed
3. to breach; to violate
4. to neglect; to miss
5. mistake; fault; wrongdoing
6. 75th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "failure" (𝍐)

失

1. Alternative form of 逸 (yì, “to flee; to run away”)
2. Alternative form of 佚 (“to ignore; indulgent”)

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. mistake, disadvantage
2. loss, lose

• Go-on: しち (shichi)
• Kan-on: しつ (shitsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: うしなう (ushinau, 失う, Jōyō)^{←うしなふ (usinafu, 失ふ, historical)}、なくす (nakusu, 失くす)、うせる (useru, 失せる)

失 (eumhun 잃을 실 (ireul sil))

1. hanja form^? of 실 (“loss”)

• 실직 (失職, siljik, “losing a job; unemployment”)

失: Hán Nôm readings: thất, thắt

失 • (thất)

1. chữ Hán form of thất.
   1. to lose something
   2. to make a mistake; to blunder; to contravene; to infringe; to violate
   3. to miss