sǔn

to damage; to harm; to decrease

HSK 5 #911

Character data

HSK 5
Frequency 911th character
Radical ⼿ (64.7)
Strokes 10
Index # 1798
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

损 sǔn
  1. 1. to damage
  2. 2. to harm
  3. 3. to decrease
  4. 4. (coll.) to speak sarcastically
  5. 5. to deride
  6. 6. mean
  7. 7. caustic
  8. 8. to lose
  9. 9. one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷨)

Stroke order

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Words containing 损

Word Meaning
(dialect) sharp-tongued; harsh
basal ganglia lesions
to ridicule
to harm others; to mock people; to taunt
to harm others without benefiting oneself (idiom)
harm public interest for personal gain
bad friend
profit and loss; increase and decrease
income statement (US); profit and loss account (UK)
crippling taxation
consumables
to donate; donation
to humble
vulnerability
(computing) lossy compression
wishing for profit, but causing loss (idiom); good intentions that lead to disaster
stop-loss level; price to limit losses
to contaminate
damage to goods during shipping
to reduce; to decrease; to weaken
pride comes before a fall
environmental damage
cortical visual impairment (CVI)
bruising (damage to soft fruit etc)
attrition rate