失 forms many important compounds: 失去 (to lose), 失望 (disappointed), 失败 (to fail), 消失 (to disappear), 失眠 (insomnia). Rarely used alone.
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失shī
to lose; to miss
Indivisible five-stroke unit: a top falling stroke over a 夫-like body, not productively decomposable since the slipping-loose silhouette is the whole point. Indexed under Kangxi #37 大 (dà) by graphic resemblance; no separable radical-element survives. Historically oracle-bone forms showed a hand with something dropping out of its grasp.
Filed under radical 大 (dà, #37) by convention. 大 is not a separate component in 失, so no strokes are highlighted.
