败
Meaning
- to defeat
- to damage
- to lose (to an opponent)
Example sentence
胜败是兵家常事。
Both victory and defeat are but an everyday occurrence to a soldier.
The character 败
败 is 贝, a shell, beside 攵, a hand with a stick — wealth struck apart. To be beaten: 失败 failure, 打败 to defeat someone, 败给他 to lose to him. 胜 is the other half of each.