shī
lose
Original meaning:
to hide from view
Depicts a person (元) hiding in plants (屮). Based on the original meaning "to hide from view", now written as 佚. The meaning later shifted to "fail" and "lose".
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sources
何琳儀《戰國古文字典:戰國文字聲系》p.1090
黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.3349