Japanese Dictionary
Find Kanji by radicals
Find Kanji by selecting its radicals below.
- Reading and JLPT level
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失敗 JLPT 4
- Kana Reading
- しっぱい
- Romaji
- shippai
- Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi), nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no', noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru
- Meaning
- failure; mistake; blunder
- Example sentence
- 試練を受けることになったダレン。失敗すれば、死刑! Darren is to be put through a trial. If he fails, it's the death penalty!
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Examples of 失敗, しっぱい in a sentence
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Darren is to be put through a trial. If he fails, it's the death penalty!
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模擬試験に何回も失敗して、実際に受けてみたら思わぬ結果が出た。
Having failed my mock examinations any number of times, when I actually tried taking it the result was nothing I'd imagined.
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Is there really any guy who has such a sad face when they mess up?
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If you mess-up it can't be redone, so don't mess-up!
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If you mess-up it can't be redone, so don't mess-up!
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However if you get carried away you'll risk failure so take care!
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