HSK 6 · Society

失踪 shīzōng “to go missing” in Chinese

Traditional 失蹤

What 失踪 means

  1. to go missing
  2. to disappear
  3. to be missing
  4. unaccounted for

How to say 失踪

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale失shī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale踪zōng1st tone, high and level

失踪 in a sentence

  1. 失踪的猫还没被找到。

    Shīzōng de māo hái méi bèi zhǎodào.

    The missing cat hasn’t been found yet.

    Sentence #829551 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 所有村民出发去山里寻找一只失踪的猫。

    Suǒyǒu cūnmín chūfā qù shān lǐ xúnzhǎo yì zhī shīzōng de māo.

    All the villagers set off into the hills to look for a missing cat.

    Sentence #345948 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他失踪了。

    Tā shīzōng le.

    He’s gone missing.

    Sentence #884653 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 失踪 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 失 (shī) with each of its parts in a different colour
失shīto lose
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 夫man · fū
The character 踪 (zōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
踪zōngfootprint; trace; tracks
  • 足foot · zúMeaning part
  • 宗ancestry · zōngSound part

足 hints at the meaning (foot); 宗 (zōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zōng.

How to write 失踪

失 5 strokes · 踪 15 strokes

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失踪 (shīzōng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 失踪 (shīzōng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 失踪

Words with 失

失败shībài · to fail失望shīwàng · disappointed失眠shīmián · to suffer from insomnia失去shīqù · to lose消失xiāoshī · to disappear失业shīyè · unemployment损失sǔnshī · loss丧失sàngshī · to lose遗失yíshī · to lose (something)失事shīshì · (of a plane or ship) to crash

Words with 踪

跟踪gēnzōng · to track踪迹zōngjì · trace

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FAQs

失踪 (shīzōng) means “to go missing” or “to disappear”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shīzōng: shī with a 1st tone, then zōng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 失踪 is written 失蹤. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shizong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 失踪 from the suggestions. Typing shizong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
失踪 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.