"失敗" meaning in Japanese

See 失敗 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ɕi̥p̚pa̠i] Forms: 失敗 [canonical] (ruby: (しっ), (ぱい)), shippai [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|しっぱい}} 失(しっ)敗(ぱい) • (shippai)
  1. failure, miscarriage
    Sense id: en-失敗-ja-noun-jHLe2bmz Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms read with on'yomi, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō), Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 11 30 27 31 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 21 25 28 26 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 11 26 34 28 Disambiguation of Japanese terms read with on'yomi: 20 23 31 26 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 21 24 31 25 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō): 33 21 26 20 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 22 23 30 25
  2. mistake, fault, error Synonyms (mistake): 錯誤 (sakugo) (ruby: 錯誤(さくご))
    Sense id: en-失敗-ja-noun-97~cS9VG Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms read with on'yomi, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 11 30 27 31 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 21 25 28 26 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 11 26 34 28 Disambiguation of Japanese terms read with on'yomi: 20 23 31 26 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 21 24 31 25 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 22 23 30 25 Disambiguation of 'mistake': 1 99

Verb

IPA: [ɕi̥p̚pa̠i] Forms: 失敗する transitive [canonical] (ruby: (しっ), (ぱい)), shippai suru [romanization], 失敗し [stem] (ruby: (しっ), (ぱい)), 失敗した [past] (ruby: (しっ), (ぱい))
Head templates: {{ja-verb-suru|しっぱい|tr=both}} 失(しっ)敗(ぱい)する • (shippai suru) transitive or intransitive suru (stem 失(しっ)敗(ぱい)し (shippai shi), past 失(しっ)敗(ぱい)した (shippai shita))
  1. fail Tags: intransitive, suru
    Sense id: en-失敗-ja-verb-USgNq~vI Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms read with on'yomi, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 11 30 27 31 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 21 25 28 26 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 11 26 34 28 Disambiguation of Japanese terms read with on'yomi: 20 23 31 26 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 21 24 31 25 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 25 20 34 21 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 22 23 30 25
  2. make a mistake Tags: intransitive, suru
    Sense id: en-失敗-ja-verb-2CbL6HKZ Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms read with on'yomi, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 11 30 27 31 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 21 25 28 26 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 11 26 34 28 Disambiguation of Japanese terms read with on'yomi: 20 23 31 26 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 21 24 31 25 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 22 23 30 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: しくじる (shikujiru)
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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "seikō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "成功",
          "せいこう"
        ]
      ],
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “failure”",
      "word": "成功"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "失敗",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "失",
          "しっ"
        ],
        [
          "敗",
          "ぱい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shippai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "しっぱい"
      },
      "expansion": "失(しっ)敗(ぱい) • (shippai)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 30 27 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 28 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 26 34 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 23 31 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 24 31 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 21 26 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 23 30 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "failure, miscarriage"
      ],
      "id": "en-失敗-ja-noun-jHLe2bmz",
      "links": [
        [
          "failure",
          "failure"
        ],
        [
          "miscarriage",
          "miscarriage"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 30 27 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 28 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 26 34 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 23 31 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 24 31 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 23 30 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mistake, fault, error"
      ],
      "id": "en-失敗-ja-noun-97~cS9VG",
      "links": [
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
        ],
        [
          "fault",
          "fault"
        ],
        [
          "error",
          "error"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "roman": "sakugo",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "錯誤",
              "さくご"
            ]
          ],
          "sense": "mistake",
          "word": "錯誤"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕi̥p̚pa̠i]"
    },
    {
      "other": "しっぱい"
    }
  ],
  "word": "失敗"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "失敗する transitive",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "失",
          "しっ"
        ],
        [
          "敗",
          "ぱい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shippai suru",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "失敗し",
      "roman": "shippai shi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "失",
          "しっ"
        ],
        [
          "敗",
          "ぱい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "失敗した",
      "roman": "shippai shita",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "失",
          "しっ"
        ],
        [
          "敗",
          "ぱい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "しっぱい",
        "tr": "both"
      },
      "expansion": "失(しっ)敗(ぱい)する • (shippai suru) transitive or intransitive suru (stem 失(しっ)敗(ぱい)し (shippai shi), past 失(しっ)敗(ぱい)した (shippai shita))",
      "name": "ja-verb-suru"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 30 27 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 28 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 26 34 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 23 31 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 24 31 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 20 34 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 23 30 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fail"
      ],
      "id": "en-失敗-ja-verb-USgNq~vI",
      "links": [
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "suru"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 30 27 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 25 28 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 26 34 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 23 31 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 24 31 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 23 30 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "make a mistake"
      ],
      "id": "en-失敗-ja-verb-2CbL6HKZ",
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "suru"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕi̥p̚pa̠i]"
    },
    {
      "other": "しっぱい"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shikujiru",
      "word": "しくじる"
    }
  ],
  "word": "失敗"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "seikō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "成功",
          "せいこう"
        ]
      ],
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “failure”",
      "word": "成功"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese intransitive verbs",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese suru verbs",
    "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 失 read as しつ",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 敗 read as はい",
    "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
    "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese transitive verbs",
    "Japanese verbs",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "失敗",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "失",
          "しっ"
        ],
        [
          "敗",
          "ぱい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shippai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "しっぱい"
      },
      "expansion": "失(しっ)敗(ぱい) • (shippai)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "failure, miscarriage"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "failure",
          "failure"
        ],
        [
          "miscarriage",
          "miscarriage"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "mistake, fault, error"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
        ],
        [
          "fault",
          "fault"
        ],
        [
          "error",
          "error"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕi̥p̚pa̠i]"
    },
    {
      "other": "しっぱい"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "sakugo",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "錯誤",
          "さくご"
        ]
      ],
      "sense": "mistake",
      "word": "錯誤"
    }
  ],
  "word": "失敗"
}

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    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese intransitive verbs",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese suru verbs",
    "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 失 read as しつ",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 敗 read as はい",
    "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
    "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese transitive verbs",
    "Japanese verbs",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "失敗する transitive",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "失",
          "しっ"
        ],
        [
          "敗",
          "ぱい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shippai suru",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "失敗し",
      "roman": "shippai shi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "失",
          "しっ"
        ],
        [
          "敗",
          "ぱい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "失敗した",
      "roman": "shippai shita",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "失",
          "しっ"
        ],
        [
          "敗",
          "ぱい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "しっぱい",
        "tr": "both"
      },
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      "name": "ja-verb-suru"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "fail"
      ],
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        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "suru"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "make a mistake"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "suru"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕi̥p̚pa̠i]"
    },
    {
      "other": "しっぱい"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "shikujiru",
      "word": "しくじる"
    }
  ],
  "word": "失敗"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 失敗 meaning in Japanese (3.5kB)

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  "path": [
    "失敗"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "失敗",
  "trace": "started on line 3, detected on line 10"
}

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  "msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "失敗"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "失敗",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 10"
}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "失敗",
  "trace": ""
}

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