败 (敗) bài

1. bài verb to defeat; to vanquish
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 打败 or 战胜 (Guoyu '敗' v 1; Kroll 2015 '敗' 1; NCCED '败' 4; Unihan '敗')
2. bài verb to decline
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 衰落; for example, the idiom 家败人亡 'the family declined and people died' (Guoyu '敗' v 6; Kroll 2015 '敗' 1b; NCCED '败' 7; Unihan '敗')
3. bài verb to fail
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '败' 2; Unihan '敗')
4. bài verb to rot; to spoil; to tarnish
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 腐烂 (Guoyu '敗' v 5; Kroll 2015 '敗' 2; NCCED '败' 1)
5. bài verb to lose; to be defeated
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 被打败 (Guoyu '敗' v 2; NCCED '败' 3; Unihan '敗')
6. bài verb to ruin; to damage
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 损坏 (Guoyu '敗' v 4; NCCED '败' 5)
7. bài adjective worn
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '败' 6)
8. bài noun a defeat
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '敗' n 1)
9. bài noun failure
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '敗' n 2)
10. bài verb to destroy; to wreck
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 破坏 (Guoyu '敗' v 3)
11. bài verb to dispel; to eliminate; to remove
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 消除 (Guoyu '敗' v 7)
12. bài adjective withered
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 消除 (Guoyu '敗' v 7)
13. bài verb defeated; parājita
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: parājita, Japanese: hai, or: bai (BCSD '敗', p. 574; Mahāvyutpatti 'parājitam'; MW 'parājita'; SH '敗', p. 351; Unihan '敗')

Contained in

• 道败时信(道敗時信) to have faith at a time when the way has disappeared
• 股票有涨有跌 经商有赚有赔 事业有起有落 计划有成有败 比赛有胜有负 地位有上有下 际遇有好有坏 人生有得有失(股票有漲有跌 經商有賺有賠 事業有起有落 計劃有成有敗 比賽有勝有負 地位有上有下 際遇有好有壞 人生有得有失) Stocks will rise and fall. Business has its profits and losses. Careers may succeed or fail. Plans will progress or decline. Races will create winners and losers. Ranking can climb or drop. A circumstance can be good or bad. Life has its gains and losses.

Also contained in

转败为胜 、 胜败 、 成败利钝 、 败坏 、 善败 、 贪污腐败 、 成败论人 、 身败名裂 、 败血症 、 屡战屡败 、 不败之地 、 纳败缺 、 壹败涂地 、 屡败屡战 、 打败 、 善败之端 、 失败主义 、 败落 、 落败 、 败缺 、 衰败 、 气急败坏 、 窳败 、 败散 、 成事不足，败事有余 、 败光 、 败笔 、 败柳残花 、 成败在此一举 、 败军 、 金玉其表，败絮其中 、 败军之将 、 诈败 、 败胃 、 败军之际 、 败子回头 、 着着失败 、 败兴 、 成败 、 骄兵必败 、 惨败 、 兵败将亡 、 反败为胜 、 败战 、 败家子 、 慈母多败儿 、 反腐败 、 彻底失败 、 成也萧何，败也萧何

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 22 Mahāsaṅghikavinaya (Mohesengzhi Lu) 摩訶僧祇律 — count: 37
• Scroll 21 Mahāsaṅghikavinaya (Mohesengzhi Lu) 摩訶僧祇律 — count: 20
• Scroll 9 Zun Po Xu Mi Pusa Suo Ji Lun 尊婆須蜜菩薩所集論 — count: 17
• Scroll 23 Mahāsaṅghikavinaya (Mohesengzhi Lu) 摩訶僧祇律 — count: 16
• Scroll 3 Zun Po Xu Mi Pusa Suo Ji Lun 尊婆須蜜菩薩所集論 — count: 15
• Scroll 1 Zun Po Xu Mi Pusa Suo Ji Lun 尊婆須蜜菩薩所集論 — count: 14
• Scroll 1 Brahma Net Sutra (Fan Wang Liushi Er Jian Jing) 梵網六十二見經 — count: 14
• Scroll 1 Fa Guan Jing 法觀經 — count: 11
• Scroll 3 Sengjia Luocha Suo Ji Jing 僧伽羅剎所集經 — count: 11
• Scroll 4 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 11

Collocations

• 坏败 (壞敗) 諸根壞敗 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 109
• 败劫 (敗劫) 憶識世間二十成劫敗劫 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 33
• 退败 (退敗) 脩羅退敗 — Sutra on Śakra's Questions (Dishi Suo Wen Jing) 帝釋所問經, Scroll 1 — count: 18
• 成劫败 (成劫敗) 憶識世間二十成劫敗劫 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 13
• 败时 (敗時) 或有此世間初壞敗時 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 11 — count: 8
• 朽败 (朽敗) 朽敗 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 7 — count: 5
• 打破败 (打破敗) 打破敗鼓 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 16 — count: 4
• 劫败 (劫敗) 以我憶識故知有成劫敗劫 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 4
• 败人 (敗人) 此處壞敗人 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 33 — count: 4
• 不朽败 (不朽敗) 而不朽敗 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 26 — count: 4