漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
勝: victory, win
Also: prevail, excel
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 月meat(meaning)
- 劵(form)
月 carries the meaning · 劵 is drawn in
12 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
ショウshou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 勝者しょうしゃwinner, victor
- 勝利しょうりvictory, triumph
- 勝敗しょうはいvictory or defeat
- 決勝戦けっしょうせんfinals game of a tournament
- 二勝三敗にしょうさんぱいtwo victories & three defeats
- 勝負するしょうぶするplay, fight, contest [v.i.]
- 優勝するゆうしょうするwin a championship [v.i.]
- 連勝するれんしょうするwin consecutively [v.i.]
かつkatsu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 勝つかつwin, gain victory [v.i.]
まさるmasaru · kun'yomi
- 勝るまさるexcel, surpass, outrival
- 男勝りおとこまさりstrong-minded, manly
かつkatsu · kun'yomi
- 勝手なかってなselfish
Also read -がち, すぐれる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)朕 (sound) + 力 strength (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 勝 (rev. 92160411), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Flex your arm and feel the power! That's 力, representing the raw muscle and effort required to change the world.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 胜 · traditional, as in Japanese · shèng
Japan keeps the traditional form 勝; mainland China simplifies it to 胜.
- Simplified
- 胜 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 勝 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shèng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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