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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *败* | 败* | *败
to defeat / to damage / to lose (to an opponent) / to fail / to wither
HSK 4
to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *当* | 当* | *当
at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student)
HSK 6
air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked
HSK 6
(of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained
HSK 7-9
to fail / to lose effectiveness
HSK 7-9
to fail to live up (to expectations) / unworthy (of trust) / to let down / to betray (hopes) / to disappoint
HSK 7-9
to be overdue / to fail to meet a deadline / to be behind in doing sth
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *砸* | 砸* | *砸
to smash / to pound / to fail / to muck up / to bungle
HSK 7-9
failed; busted; to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company; to have chilled (of a relationship)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *失* | 失* | *失
to lose / to miss / to fail
to have a miscarriage / (fig.) to fail; to fall through
cannot / to fail to / unable to
to suffer a defeat / to fail / to fall behind
mojibake (nonsense characters displayed when software fails to render text according to its intended character encoding)
to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless
to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
to fail an exam
to fail to accomplish / unsuccessful (attempt); abortive (coup d'état); attempted (murder, suicide); unfulfilled (wish)
to fail to be chosen (or elected) / to lose an election
to fail the imperial exams / to flunk
to fail to eventuate / (verb suffix) to be unsuccessful in ...ing
ungrateful / heartless / to fail to be loyal to one's love
lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
to suffer the painful loss of (a loved one etc) / to miss out on (an opportunity) / to fail to gain (victory etc)
to fail to pay sufficient attention to / to be negligent in regard to / to be lacking in
lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for
to reconstruct / to repair / to revamp / to revise / to retake a failed course
fail to appreciate sb's kindness / not know how to appreciate favors
to slap sb's face / to slap one's own face / fig. to fail to live up to a boast
to fail in observing or supervising / to miss / to let sth slip through
to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure / to fall at the last hurdle / snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
lit. orders are carried out and prohibitions are observed (idiom)fig. to execute every order without fail
to fail to meet each other / to conflict with each other / to be at odds with
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挫* | 挫* | *挫
obstructed / to fail / to oppress / to repress / to lower the tone / to bend back / to dampen
to fail / to come to nothing / to fall through (of plans, hopes) / to lie
to fail to grasp the main points
to fail
to start but not finish (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
(idiom) to fail to finish off what one started
unable to turn around a hopeless situation (idiom) / to fail to save the situation
to fail to see the larger issue (idiom) / to fail to grasp the big picture
to fail to come out on time / to miss a deadline
to fail to show up for work
not clear / unknown / to fail to understand
to fail to return a borrowed item
succeed or fail, sharp or blunt (idiom); advantages and disadvantages / success and failure / You win some, you lose some.
to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
to see what others fail to see (idiom) / to have exceptional insight
to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
(formal) to delay / to miss a deadline / to fail to do sth at the appointed time
to fail (a course)
to miss one's step / (of an investor) to fail to invest before the price rises
fetus dies in the belly / (fig.) plans or projects failed before being carried out
Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
to peel off / mottled / to fail an exam / to be demoted
(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so) / debt dodger
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
"he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫)
the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐
to confuse (fail to differentiate)
(coll.) to stand sb up / to fail to honor an agreement
lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent / to be blind to the fact
Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
to meet with unexpected failure (idiom) / to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers
to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise
lit. disappointed that iron does not turn into steel (idiom) / fig. frustrated with sb who has failed to meet one's expectations
to fail / to fail to materialize / not to get one's way
Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
Wang Shuwen (735-806), famous Tang dynasty scholar, Go player and politician, a leader of failed Yongzhen Reform 永貞革新|永贞革新 of 805
(finance) (of a check) to bounce / (fig.) (of a product etc) to fail to be released on schedule
to fail the civil service examination (in imperial China)
to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result
lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize a familiar person / a dispute between close people who fail to recognize each other
Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
to be ashamed to face (sb) / to feel bad about having failed (sb)
failed reform of Northern Song government in 1043
Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
(idiom) blind as a bat (figuratively) / unaware of who (or what) one is dealing with / to fail to recognize what sb a bit more perceptive would
to be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results (idiom)
Yongzhen Reform, Tang dynasty failed reform movement of 805 led by Wang Shuwen 王叔文
(of an item) to fail to sell at an auction
Wang Pi (-c. 806), Tang dynasty chancellor and a leader of failed Yongzhen reform 永貞革新|永贞革新 of 805
to fail (a student) / to pawn / (of a computer or program) to crash / to stop working
to waste one's life; to fail to make the most of one's life
Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything
to flunk / to fail a test
(idiom) to fail at every step of the way / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2zhuo2shi1bai4]
to fail to keep to one's word / to break a promise
to fail / to flunk
to be disappointing / to fail to live up to expectations
lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山 (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom) / fig. to fail an exam / to fall behind (in a competition)
to fail to greet in timely manner


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