- (of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc)
- to mess things up
Characters
- 失 (失): to lose; to miss; to fail
- 事 (事): matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 失事
- MDBG: 失事
- Examples with 失事 on Tatoeba
Examples
许多人在飞机失事中丧生了。
飞机失事导致200人丧命。