"To fail" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 失败 | shī bài | to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:次[ci4] |   |
| 挂 |  guà | to hang / to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried / to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital) / to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill / to die / to be finished / to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects | |
| 砸 | zá | to smash / to pound / to fail / to muck up / to bungle | |
| 失效 | shī xiào | to fail / to lose effectiveness | |
| 流产 | liú chǎn | to have a miscarriage / (fig.) to fail / to fall through | |
| 落空 | luò kōng | to fail / to fall through / to come to nothing | |
| 落败 | luò bài | to suffer a defeat / to fail / to fall behind | |
| 不及格 | bù jí gé | to fail / to flunk | |
| 当 | dàng | at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student) | |
| 不遂 | bù suì | to fail / to fail to materialize / not to get one's way | |
| 当掉 | dàng diào | to fail (a student) / to pawn / (of a computer or program) to crash / to stop working | |
| 失 | shī | to lose / to miss / to fail | |
| 砸锅 | zá guō | to fail | |
| 倒 | dǎo | to fall / to collapse / to lie horizontally / to fail / to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit | |
| 败 | bài | to defeat / to damage / to lose (to an opponent) / to fail / to wither | |
| 挫 | cuò | obstructed / to fail / to oppress / to repress / to lower the tone / to bend back / to dampen | |
| 脱空 | tuō kōng | to fail / to come to nothing / to fall through (of plans, hopes) / to lie | |
| 挂科 | guà kē | to fail (a course) | |
