Failure
Mistake
noun, verbal noun, の adjective
A fault and a failure, all in one. This must have been one big failure and mistake you've made.
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well. The 失 gets shortened, and 敗 gets rendaku'd, though. Don't make that 失敗.
こっちの選手はバントを失敗したと思ったら、今度はこっちの選手がとうるいに失敗したんだよ。
When this player failed to bunt, this other player was caught stealing.
失敗して後かいする方が、何もせずに後かいするよりマシだと思うんだ。
I think failure is still better than doing nothing at all and then regretting that you didn't even try.
正直言って、君が作ったこの映画は失敗作だね。でも、一度失敗したからといって、くよくよしてちゃ駄目だよ。誰かも、「成功とは、失敗から失敗へと熱意を失うことなく進んでいける能力である」って言ってただろ？
To be honest, this movie you made is a flop. However, you can’t let it get you down just because you failed once. Someone said that success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm, right?