失

Derived characters

 * 秩 帙
 * 鉄 铁

Glyph origin
– something (丿) falling from a hand (手).

Alternatively, a depicting a footprint of someone that has fallen surrounded by drops of blood.

Etymology
Cognate with,.

Probably ; compare Cogtse 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Note also 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 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" (𝍐)

Kanji

 * 1) mistake, disadvantage
 * 2) loss, lose

Verb

 * 1) to lose something
 * 2) to make a mistake; to blunder; to contravene; to infringe; to violate
 * 3) to miss
 * 1) to miss