失事 meaning in English
(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc); to mess things up
13 strokes
Meaning of 失事
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
shīshì
- (of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc)
- to mess things up
失事 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
这次飞机失事造成 200 人死亡。
The plane accident cost the lives of 200 people.
Stroke order for each character
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失 shī · to lose · 5 strokes
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事 shì · matter · 8 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 失事.
| 没事儿 | méishìr | to have spare time; free from work |
| 事情 | shìqing | affair; matter; thing; business |
| 故事 | gùshi | old practice |
| 好事 | hǎoshì | good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity |
| 同事 | tóngshì | colleague; co-worker |
| 失去 | shīqù | to lose |
| 消失 | xiāoshī | to disappear; to fade away |
| 事实 | shìshí | fact |
| 事实上 | shìshíshang | in fact; in reality |
| 事件 | shìjiàn | incident; event |
| 事业 | shìyè | undertaking; project |
| 事故 | shìgù | accident |
Questions about 失事
What does 失事 mean?
失事 (shīshì) means "(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc); to mess things up".
How do you write 失事?
失事 is made of 2 characters: 失 (5 strokes), 事 (8 strokes). That is 13 strokes in total.