U+5931 "失" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
失
U+5931 "失" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to lose," "to miss," or "to fail," and it is composed of the radical 大 (big) combined with a component that suggests something slipping away. It appears frequently in common words such as 失去 (shīqù, to lose), 失败 (shībài, to fail), and 失望 (shīwàng, to be disappointed). In classical and modern Chinese texts, the character conveys both concrete loss, such as misplacing an object, and abstract concepts like missed opportunities or errors. Its historical form in oracle bone script depicted a hand dropping a stick, visually representing the idea of something being let go or lost, making it a rich example of how Chinese writing encodes meaning through visual metaphor.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5931 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 失 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 失 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA4 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5931 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005931 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5931 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A5A2 |
| kCCCII | 21392B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4642 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4642 |
| kCangjie | HQO |
| kCantonese | sat1 |
| kCihaiT | 368.301 |
| kCowles | 3849 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0508.070 |
| kDefinition | lose; make mistake, neglect |
| kEACC | 21392B |
| kFanqie | 式質 |
| kFenn | 481C |
| kFennIndex | 449.06 450.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2503.0 |
| kGB0 | 4207 |
| kGB1 | 4207 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0402a |
| kHangul | 실:0E |
| kHanYu | 10525.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shī(525) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10525.010:shī,yì |
| kHKGlyph | 0842 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0508.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10525.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0249.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A27 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A5A2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C3A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5DD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6377 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4642 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-514C |
| kJapanese | シツ イツ シチ イチ うしなう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:265 |
| kJapaneseKun | USHINAU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHITSU ITSU |
| kJis0 | 2826 |
| kKangXi | 0249.090 |
| kKorean | SIL |
| kLau | 2674 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1136 |
| kMandarin | shī |
| kMatthews | 5806 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2642 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009462 |
| kMorohashi | 05844 |
| kNelson | 0178 |
| kPhonetic | 1135 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2278+37.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 37.2 |
| kSBGY | 470.36 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 147.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shī粵sat1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1136 |
| kTang | *shit |
| kTGHZ2013 | 333.120:shī |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thất |
| kXerox | 242:326 |
| kXHC1983 | 1033.030:shī |