U+5931 "失" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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.