赢
to win
HSK level
- Pinyin
- yíng
- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- HSK 4
- Strokes
- 17
- Register
- neutral
Stroke order for 赢
赢 is written with 17 strokes. The animation replays automatically.
What does 赢 mean?
赢 (yíng) means "to win" — to come out ahead in a game, match, competition, bet, or contest.
It can stand alone (我们赢了, "we won") or take what was won as an object (赢了比赛, "won the match"; 赢钱, "win money"). Its direct opposite is 输 (shū), "to lose," and the two are often paired: 输赢 means "win or lose / the outcome." A very common modern compound is 双赢 (shuāngyíng), "win-win."
赢 is a famously complex character — five components stacked together (亡口月贝凡) — and Chinese internet users joke about its difficulty. Don't confuse it with the near-identical 嬴 (yíng), a rare surname (as in the first emperor 嬴政, Ying Zheng); the two differ by a single inner component and are a classic hard-to-tell-apart pair.
Note: Neutral and everyday. The written/formal equivalent is 获胜.
Memory hook: 赢 packs 贝 (money/shell) in its middle — winning brings the prize home.
Example sentences
我们队昨天赢了。
Wǒmen duì zuótiān yíng le.
Our team won yesterday.
spoken
他赢得了大家的尊重。
Tā yíngdé le dàjiā de zūnzhòng.
He won everyone's respect.
neutral
这是一个双赢的结果。
Zhè shì yí ge shuāngyíng de jiéguǒ.
This is a win-win outcome.
neutral
只要努力，就有机会赢。
Zhǐyào nǔlì, jiù yǒu jīhuì yíng.
As long as you work hard, you have a chance to win.
spoken
Common phrases with 赢
Synonyms
获胜 means "to be victorious" and is the formal, written choice (主队获胜). 赢 is the everyday spoken word and can also take an object like 赢钱.
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