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失事 shīshì

失事 shīshì Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 2 English Translations of the word 失事 shīshì .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
shīshì | shi1 shi4
English translation
to be involved in a crash
accident

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HSK level

6

Traditional form

失事 shīshì

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí
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Etymology of 失事 shīshì

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失 shī

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of something falling out of the hand.

Positional decomposition

⿻丿夫

Number of Strokes

5
事 shì

Explanation

The characters 史 Shǐ (history), 吏 lì (government official), 使 shǐ (cause; use; instruct), and 事 shì (matter; work; affair) are all etymologically related and all derive from the same ancient character, depicting a hand (又 yòu ) holding some object. There are various theorie

Positional decomposition

⿻⿳一口彐亅

Number of Strokes

8

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Example sentences using 失事 shīshì

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水手 shuǐ shǒu 们 men 乘 Chéng 救生筏 jiù shēng fá 离开 líkāi 失事 shīshì 的 de 船 chuán .

The sailors got away from the wrecked ship on a raft.

官方 guānfāng 说 shuì 这次飞机 fēijī 失事 shīshì 无一人生 rénshēng 还 Huán 。

Officials said there were no survivors of the plane crash.

有 yǒu 两名乘客 chéng kè 仍 réng 被困在 zài 失事 shīshì 的 de 车辆 chē liàng 里 lǐ 。

Two passengers are still trapped in the wreck.

他们 tā men 在 zài 北海 Běi hǎi 遇到 yùdào 风暴 fēngbào ，船 chuán 险些 xiǎn xiē 失事 shīshì 。

They narrowly escaped shipwreck in a storm in the North Sea.

失事 shīshì Decomposition

See the 2 Chinese characters that make up 失事 shīshì and their own compounds.

失事 shīshì Compounds

See all 31 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 失事 shīshì in their composition.

  • 失 shī
    • 铁 Tiě , 跌 diē , 秩 zhì , 迭 dié , 轶 yì , 佚 yì , 劮 yì , 帙 zhì , 抶 chì , 昳 dié , 柣 zhí , 泆 yì , 瓞 dié , 眣 dié , 紩 zhì , 袟 zhì , 鉄 zhí , 镻 dié , 呹, 妷, 怢, 祑, 翐, 胅, 苵, 蛈, 詄, 趃, 軼 yì
  • 事 shì
    • 剚 zì , 倳
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