Kanji1 / 11
敗 kanji
failure, defeat, reversal
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ハイ
Kun readings
やぶれる
Variant forms
贁Words with 敗
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —失敗隠しcover-up
- —失敗国家failed state
- —敗者復活returning to the competition (after a loss); comeback (from defeat); being reinstated; loser's resurrection; repechage; second-chance match
- —敗色が濃いthe team appears to be headed for defeat; strong indications of defeat
- —喧嘩両成敗in a quarrel, both parties are to blame
- —敗者復活戦repechage; revival series; loser's bracket; second-chance match
- —御成敗式目Formulary of Adjudications (51-article Joei legal code)
- —市場の失敗market failure
- —敗北主義者defeatist
- —失敗を恐れるto be afraid of making mistakes; to fear failing
- —デジタル敗戦digital defeat; Japanese society and companies lagging behind (the West) in terms of IT and digital transformation
- —一敗地に塗れるto meet with a crushing defeat
- —勝敗の鍵を握るto have the game in one's hands; to hold the key to victory
- —アクセス失敗率failure rate
- —失敗は成功の母failure is the mother of success
- —失敗は成功のもとfailure teaches success; failure is a stepping-stone to success
- —バッファ確保失敗buffer (full) error (i.e. space cannot be reserved as it is full)
- —敗軍の将は兵を語らずdon't be a sore loser; don't make excuses for your failures; a defeated general should not talk of strategy
- —苦敗bitter cup; bitter experience; bitter defeat; ordeal
- —朽敗decay; dilapidation