失踪
Old HSK 6
失踪 (shīzōng) · to go missing
失踪 (shīzōng) means “to go missing; to disappear”. It is written with 2 characters: 失 (to lose) + 踪 (footprints). It is an old HSK 6 word (HSK 2.0).
How 失踪 is built
The characters
失 shī · to lose
What 失 is made of
- 丿 — falling stroke
- 夫fū — man
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 大dà — big
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 人rén — person
Origin hint: Something 丿 falling from a hand 夫 (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
踪 zōng · footprints
What 踪 is made of
- 足zú — foot
- 口kǒu — mouth
- 冂 — frame
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 口kǒu — mouth
- 宗zōng — ancestry
- 宀 — roof
- 丶 — dot
- 冖mì — cover
- 示shì — altar
- 二 — two strokes
- 小xiǎo — small
- 宀 — roof
Example sentences
那只小猫失踪了三天。Nà zhī xiǎomāo shīzōng le sāntiān.That kitten went missing for three days.
警察正在寻找失踪的孩子。Jǐngchá zhèngzài xúnzhǎo shīzōng de háizi.The police are looking for the missing child.
Questions about 失踪
What does 失踪 mean?
失踪 (shīzōng) means “to go missing; to disappear”.
How do you pronounce 失踪?
失踪 is pronounced shīzōng.
Which HSK level is 失踪?
失踪 is in Old HSK 6.
Related words
- 失去shīqùto lose
- 消失xiāoshīto disappear
- 失败shībàito fail
- 失望shīwàngdisappointed
- 失业shīyèto lose one's job
- 失眠shīmiáninsomnia
- 损失sǔnshīloss
- 得不偿失débùchángshīthe gains don't make up for the losses
- 过失guòshīfault
- 丧失sàngshīto lose
Learn 失踪 with its group
It is part of Old HSK 6 · Group 163: a short group with quick checks and spaced repeats.