溃 散 kuì sǎn defeated / routed 敝 bì my (polite) / poor / ruined / shabby / worn out / defeated 挠 败 náo bài defeated / routed / crushed 失 败 shī bài to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:次[ci4] 打 败 dǎ bài to defeat / to overpower / to beat / to be defeated 失 手 shī shǒu a slip / miscalculation / unwise move / accidentally / by mistake / to lose control / to be defeated 项 羽 Xiàng Yǔ Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor 蚩 尤 Chī Yóu Chiyou, legendary tribal leader who was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] 溃 败 kuì bài utterly defeated / routed / crushed / to collapse (of army) 一 败 涂 地 yī bài tú dì lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat 落 花 流 水 luò huā liú shuǐ to be in a sorry state / to be utterly defeated 败 绩 bài jì to be utterly defeated / to be routed 败 亡 bài wáng to be defeated and dispersed 残 部 cán bù defeated remnants / scattered survivors 败 阵 bài zhèn to be defeated on the battlefield / to be beaten in a contest 余 党 yú dǎng remnants (of a defeated clique) / rump 溃 逃 kuì táo to flee in disorder / defeated and in rout 北 běi north / (classical) to be defeated 残 兵 败 将 cán bīng bài jiàng ruined army, defeated general (idiom) / scattered remnants 陈 炯 明 Chén Jiǒng míng Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong 负 fù to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc) 衄 nu:4 to bleed from the nose (or from the ears, gums etc) / fig. to be defeated 溃 不 成 军 kuì bù chéng jūn utterly defeated 残 敌 cán dí defeated enemy 榆 罔 Yú wǎng Yuwang (c. 2000 BC), last of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4], defeated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4] 溃 兵 kuì bīng defeated troops / routed army / scattered soldiers 知 己 知 彼 , 百 战 不 殆 zhī jǐ zhī bǐ , bǎi zhàn bù dài know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]) 破 败 不 堪 pò bài bù kān crushed / utterly defeated 骊 姬 之 乱 Lí Jī zhī Luàn Li Ji Rebellion in 657-651 BC, where concubine Li Ji tried to throne her son but was eventually defeated by Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1] 成 则 为 王 , 败 则 为 寇 chéng zé wéi wáng , bài zé wéi kòu lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom) / fig. losers are always in the wrong 怛 罗 斯 之 战 Dá luó sī zhī Zhàn Battle of Talas (751), military engagement in the valley of the Talas River 塔拉斯河[Ta3 la1 si1 He2], in which Arab forces defeated Tang armies, marking the end of Tang westward expansion