Memory phrase for the character: 败

败



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Meaning

be defeated, to defeat, loss

Pronunciation

 bài

Explanation

 Left: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money), right: strike 攵/攴 (a hand with a stick)

Mnemonic
 
When the money/capital hits, we are defeated.

Radicals

贝 shell, money
攴 rap, strikeShows originally a hand 又 with a whip 卜. It is usually simplified to 攵. Other radicals with a hand are: 又寸廾爫手扌彐右及尹君聿隶兼殳
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 Vocabulary

打败 dǎ bài  to defeat; to overpower; to beat; to suffer a defeat; to be defeated
挫败 cuò bài  to thwart; to foil (sb's plans); to defeat
挫败 cuò bài  
每谋辄败 měi móu zhé bài  to fail at every scheme (idiom)
每谋辄败 měi móu zhé bài  

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