胜
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victory; success; to beat; to defeat; to surpass; victorious; superior to; to get the better of; better than; surpassing; superb (of vista); beautiful (scenery); wonderful (view); (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear; equal to (a task)
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
victory · Heisig RSH #1222
flesh + cell
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 胜
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人定胜天 | man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature | |
| 数不胜数 | (idiom) too many to count; innumerable | |
| 不可胜数 | countless; innumerable | |
| 战无不胜 | (idiom) all-conquering; invincible | |
| 不可胜言 | inexpressible (idiom); beyond description | |
| 不胜酒力 | to become intoxicated after having only one or two drinks | |
| 战无不胜，攻无不克 | to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering; ever victorious; n… | |
| 攻无不克，战无不胜 | to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering; ever victorious; n… | |
| 胜之不武 | (fig.) to fight a one-sided battle; to have an unfair advantage in a contest | |
| 东胜区 | Dongsheng, a district of Ordos City 鄂爾多斯市|鄂尔多斯市[E4 er3 duo1 si1 Shi4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 龙胜县 | see 龍勝各族自治縣|龙胜各族自治县[Long2 sheng4 Ge4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 胜利日 | Victory Day | |
| 德胜门 | Deshengmen (Beijing) | |
| 胜利者 | victor; winner | |
| 美不胜收 | nothing more beautiful can be imagined (idiom) | |
| 身教胜于言教 | teaching by example beats explaining in words (idiom); action speaks louder than words | |
| 战无不胜，攻无不取 | to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering; ever victorious; n… | |
| 力不胜任 | not to be up to the task (idiom); incompetent | |
| 喜不自胜 | unable to contain one's joy (idiom) | |
| 武胜县 | Wusheng, a county in Guang'an City 廣安市|广安市[Guang3 an1 Shi4], Sichuan |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 生 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生 sound part | life, lifetime; birth; growth | |
| 性 | sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective | |
| 星 | star, planet; a point of light | |
| 姓 | name, family name, surname; clan, people | |
| 牲 | sacrificial animal; domestic animal | |
| 笙 | free reed mouth organ | |
| 甥 | niece, nephew; sister's child | |
| 旌 | to signal; a flag adorned with feathers | |
| 眚 | cataract; fault, error, crime |