败北
bài běi
Pinyin

Definition

败北
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bài běi
  1. (literary) to be routed (in a war)
  2. to suffer defeat (in sports etc)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

běi
  1. 1 north
  2. 2 (classical) to be defeated
Běi jīng
  1. 1 Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China
  2. 2 Peking
  3. 3 PRC government
běi shàng
  1. 1 to go up north
Běi jīng rén
  1. 1 Beijing resident
  2. 2 Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in 1921 at Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhōu kǒu diàn], Beijing
Běi jīng Shì
  1. 1 Beijing
  2. 2 capital of People's Republic of China
  3. 3 one of the four municipalities 直轄市|直辖市[zhí xiá shì]
běi guó
  1. 1 the northern part of the country
  2. 2 the North
Běi Dà
  1. 1 Peking University (abbr. for 北京大學|北京大学)
Běi píng
  1. 1 Peiping or Beiping (name of Beijing at different periods, esp. 1928-1949)
Běi Ài
  1. 1 abbr. for 北愛爾蘭|北爱尔兰[Běi Ài ěr lán], Northern Ireland
Běi dǒu
  1. 1 Great Bear
  2. 2 Big Dipper
  3. 3 Peitou town in Changhua county 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhāng huà xiàn], Taiwan
běi fāng
  1. 1 north
  2. 2 the northern part a country
  3. 3 China north of the Yellow River
běi jí
  1. 1 the North Pole
  2. 2 the Arctic Pole
  3. 3 the north magnetic pole
běi jí xióng
  1. 1 polar bear
Běi Ōu
  1. 1 north Europe
  2. 2 Scandinavia
Běi hǎi
  1. 1 Beihai, park in Beijing to the northwest of the Forbidden City
  2. 2 the North Sea (Europe)
  3. 3 Beihai prefecture-level city and seaport in Guangxi
  4. 4 Bohai Sea
  5. 5 Lake Baikal
Běi hǎi dào
  1. 1 Hokkaidō, Japan
Běi piāo
  1. 1 migrant worker living and working in Beijing without a residence permit
Běi měi
  1. 1 North America
běi bù
  1. 1 northern part
Běi mén
  1. 1 Peimen township in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[Tái nán xiàn], Taiwan

Idioms (10)

一个天南,一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
北叟失马
běi sǒu shī mǎ
  1. 1 lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a blessing in disguise
  3. 3 it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
南征北伐
nán zhēng běi fá
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北战
nán zhēng běi zhàn
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北讨
nán zhēng běi tǎo
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南箕北斗
nán jī běi dǒu
  1. 1 the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom); sth which, despite its name, is of no practical use
南辕北辙
nán yuán běi zhé
  1. 1 to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)
喝西北风
hē xī běi fēng
  1. 1 lit. drink the northwest wind (idiom); cold and hungry
大江南北
Dà jiāng nán běi
  1. 1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
  2. 2 (fig.) all over China
泰山北斗
Tài shān Běi dǒu
  1. 1 as weighty as Mt Tai, as brilliant as the Big Dipper (idiom); a giant among men

Sample Sentences

你不觉得看了让人很窝火?上一场世界杯亚洲预选赛,只要打平就能出线,结果大比分败北。还有一场,面对亚洲弱旅都让人给灌了3个球。
nǐ bù juéde kàn le ràng rén hěn wōhuǒ ?shàng yī chǎng Shìjièbēi Yàzhōu yùxuǎnsài ,zhǐyào dǎpíng jiù néng chūxiàn ,jiéguǒ dà bǐfēn bàiběi 。háiyǒu yī chǎng ,miànduì Yàzhōu ruòlǚ dōu ràng rén gěi guàn le sān ge qiú 。
Don't you think watching them is just infuriating? At the last Asian qualifying round for the World Cup, all we had to do was tie to qualify and yet we still got annihilated. Then there was that other match against some weak Asian team where we still let 3 goals in.