| 不成功 | bù chéng gōng | unsuccessful |  |
| 未遂 | wèi suì | to fail to accomplish / unsuccessful (attempt) / abortive (coup d'état) / attempted (murder, suicide) / unfulfilled (wish) |  |
| 未果 | wèi guǒ | to fail to eventuate / (verb suffix) to be unsuccessful in ...ing | |
| 谭嗣同 | Tán Sì tóng | Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
| 鉴真 | Jiàn zhēn | Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism | |
| 巴黎公社 | Bā lí Gōng shè | Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic | |
| 伽罗瓦 | Jiā luó wà | Évariste Galois (1811-1832), famous French mathematical prodigy and unsuccessful duelist | |
| 伽罗华 | Jiā luó huà | Évariste Galois (1811-1832), famous French mathematical prodigy and unsuccessful duelist / also written 伽羅瓦|伽罗瓦 | |
| 倪嗣冲 | Ní Sì chōng | Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire | |
| 刘光第 | Liú Guāng dì | Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
| 小刀会 | Xiǎo dāo huì | Dagger Society, anti-Qing secret society who mounted an unsuccessful rebellion in 1855 | |
| 康广仁 | Kāng Guǎng rén | Kang Guangren (1867-1898), younger brother of Kang Youwei 康有為|康有为[Kang1 You3 wei2] and one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
| 林旭 | Lín Xù | Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
| 杨深秀 | Yáng Shēn xiù | Yang Shenxiu (1849-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
| 杨锐 | Yáng Ruì | Yang Rui (1855-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 / Yang Rui (1963-), host of "Dialogue" on CCTV News | |
| 甲申政变 | Jiǎ shēn zhèng biàn | unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops | |
| 鉴真和尚 | Jiàn zhēn hé shang | Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism | |
| 黄花岗起义 | Huáng huā gǎng qǐ yì | Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911 in Guangzhou, one a long series of unsuccessful uprisings of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary party | |
| 孔乙己 | Kǒng Yǐ jǐ | Kong Yiji, protagonist of a short story of the same name by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4] depicting the life of a poor, unsuccessful scholar who clings to his Confucian ideals despite his dismal circumstances | |
