勝

See also: 胜

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljɯŋ, *hljɯŋs): phonetic 朕 ‎(OC *l'ɯmʔ) + 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)

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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Chinese

trad.		勝
simp.		胜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shèng, shēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˋ, ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing¹, sing³
• Min Nan (POJ): sèng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: shèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shêng⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenq
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: shēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: shêng¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheng
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing¹, sing³
    • Yale: sīng, sing
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing¹, sing³
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵/, /sɪŋ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sèng
    • Tâi-lô: sìng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sexng
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɪŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕɨŋ/, /ɕɨŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	勝	勝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	識蒸切	詩證切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨŋ/	/ɕɨŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕɨŋ/	/ɕɨŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕieŋ/	/ɕieŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕiŋ/	/ɕiŋH/
Li Rong	/ɕiəŋ/	/ɕiəŋH/
Wang Li	/ɕĭəŋ/	/ɕĭəŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯əŋ/	/ɕi̯əŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shēng	shèng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*l̥əŋ/, /*l̥əŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljɯŋ/, /*hljɯŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	勝	勝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shēng	shèng
Middle Chinese	‹ sying ›	‹ syingH ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥əŋ/	/*l̥əŋ-s/
English	equal to, capable of	overcome; surpass
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	勝	勝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17127	17128
Phonetic component	朕	朕
Rime group	蒸	蒸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	升	勝
Old Chinese	/*hljɯŋ/	/*hljɯŋs/

Definitions

勝

1. victory, success
2. to beat

Antonyms

• 敗／败 (bài)

See also

• 贏／赢 (yíng)

Compounds

Terms derived from 勝

• 胜于
• 胜仗
• 胜任
• 胜似
• 胜利
• 胜利果实

• 胜券
• 胜地
• 胜境
• 胜局
• 胜景

• 胜算
• 胜诉
• 胜负
• 胜过
• 胜迹

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Japanese

Kanji

勝

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Definitions

1. (win a game): かつ, かち
2. (be superior to): まさる

Readings

• Goon: しょう (shō)
• Kan’on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: かつ (katsu), かち (kachi), まさる (masaru), 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) 勝 (か)ちを千里 (せんり)の外 (ほか)に決 (けっ)す ‎(kachi o senri no hoka ni kessu) 殘 (ざん)に勝 (か)ち殺 (さつ)を去 (さ)るべし ‎(zan ni kachi satsu o saru beshi) 勝引 (かちびき) ‎(kachibiki) 勝因 (しょういん) ‎(shōin) 勝会 (しょうかい) ‎(shōkai) 勝軍 (しょうぐん) ‎(shōgun) 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) 勝戦 (しょうせん) ‎(shōsen) 勝訴 (しょうそ) ‎(shōso) 勝地 (しょうち) ‎(shōchi) 勝致 (しょうち) ‎(shōchi) 勝敗 (しょうはい) ‎(shōhai) 勝負 (しょうぶ) ‎(shōbu) 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) 大勝 (たいしょう) ‎(taishō) 名勝 (めいしょう) ‎(meishō) 優勝 (ゆうしょう) ‎(yūshō)

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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Vietnamese

Han character

勝 (thắng, sền)

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