勝

See also: 胜

Translingual

simpl.		胜
trad.		勝

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 朕 + semantic 力 (“strength”)

Graphically, the character decomposes as 月 + 劵, though this is not the etymology.

Han character

勝 (radical 19 力+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月火手尸 (BFQS), four-corner 7922₇, composition ⿰月劵)

1. victory
2. excel, be better than

References

• KangXi: page 148, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2409
• Dae Jaweon: page 335, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2090, character 13
• Unihan data for U+52DD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

勝 (simplified 胜, Jyutping sing1, sing3, Yale sing1, sing3)

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Japanese

Kanji

勝

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. get the better of someone
2. a victory
3. put up with something
4. great scenery

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: かつ (katsu), かち (kachi), まさる (masaru), たえる (taeru), すぐれる (sugureru)
• Nanori: かち (kachi), かつ (katsu), すぐる (suguru), すぐれ (sugure), すぐろ (suguro), とう (tō), のり (nori), まさ (masa), まさる (masaru), ます (masu), よし (yoshi)

Compounds

勝気 (かちき, kachiki) 勝鬨 (かちどき, kachidoki) 決勝於千里之外 (かちをせんりのほかにけっす, kachiwosenrinohokanikessu) 勝残去殺 (ざんにかちさつをさるべし, zannikachisatsuwosarubeshi) 勝引 (かちびき, kachibiki) 勝因 (しょういん, shōin) 勝会 (しょうかい, shōkai) 勝景 (しょうけい, shōkei) 勝国 (しょうこく, shōkoku)

勝算 (しょうさん, shōsan) 勝事 (しょうじ, shōji) 勝状 (しょうじょう, shōjō) 勝迹 (しょうせき, shōseki) 勝絶 (しょうぜつ, shōzetsu) 勝訴 (しょうそ, shōso) 勝地 (しょうち, shōchi) 勝致 (しょうち, shōchi) 勝兵 (しょうへい, shōhei) 勝友 (しょうゆう, shōyū) 勝遊 (しょうゆう, shōyū)

勝利 (しょうり, shōri) 勝流 (しょうりゅう, shōryū) 勝麗 (しょうれい, shōrei)

References

JIS: 3E21 Kuten: 3001 Shift JIS: 8F9F EUC-JP: BEA1 Frequency: 185 Nelson: 3787

New Nelson: 553 Halpern: 1005 Halpern Learners: 686 Heisig: 1209 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 4b8.4

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

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勝 (hiragana しょう, romaji -shō)

1. wins, victories

Antonyms

• 敗

Proper noun

勝 (hiragana まさる, romaji Masaru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

勝 (seung) (hangeul 승, revised seung, McCune-Reischauer sŭng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

勝 (simplified 胜, Pinyin shèng (sheng4), Wade-Giles sheng⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勝 (thắng, sền)