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Mythic Mandarin

赢 (yíng): meaning and stroke order

赢 (yíng) means to beat, to win, to profit.

赢

Simplified
赢
Traditional
贏
Pinyin
yíng

Stroke order of 赢

赢

  • yíng to beat; to win
  • 17 strokes
  • Traditional form: 贏

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 赢

  1. yíng Traditional 贏
    • to beat
    • to win
    • to profit

Radical and structure

赢
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 17 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

赢 in our stories

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  • 那天晚上，钟远只给他发了一条短信：“你赢了。祝你别后悔。”

    nà tiān wǎnshang Zhōng Yuǎn zhǐ gěi tā fā le yì tiáo duǎnxìn nǐ yíng le zhù nǐ bié hòuhuǐ

    That night Zhong Yuan sent him just one text: "You win. Hope you don't regret it."

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 龙王为了赢这场赌，偷偷把下雨的时间推迟了一个时辰，又少下了三寸八点。

    Lóngwáng wèile yíng zhè chǎng dǔ tōutōu bǎ xiàyǔ de shíjiān tuīchí le yí gè shíchen yòu shǎo xià le sān cùn bā diǎn

    To win the bet, the Dragon King secretly delayed the rain by one double-hour and made it three inches and eight drops less.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 秦将白起故意假装失败，一路后退，赵括以为自己赢了，带着大军追了上去。

    Qín jiàng Bái Qǐ gùyì jiǎzhuāng shībài yílù hòutuì Zhào Kuò yǐwéi zìjǐ yíng le dài zhe dàjūn zhuī le shàngqu

    The Qin general Bai Qi deliberately feigned defeat and fell back all the way; Zhao Kuo thought he had won and pursued with his whole army.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 赢

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).