to take defeat with bad grace; to be a sore loser; cannot afford to lose
trad. 輸不起
Also written 輸不起【shū bù qǐ】
Characters in this word
3输
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to lose; to be beaten, (bound form) to transport, (literary) to donate; to contribute, (coll.) to enter (a password)
- Pinyin
- shū
- Traditional
- 輸
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 1908 of 2500
不
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
起
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to rise, to raise, to get up, to set out, to start, to appear, to launch, to initiate (action), to draft, to establish, to get (from a depot or counter), verb suffix, to start, starting from (a time, place, price etc), classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance, classifier for groups: batch, group
- Pinyin
- qǐ
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 687 of 2500