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勝

shèng

victory

Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 朕 represents the sound.

Components
朕 sound component

朕  Sound component

zhèn

  

pronoun 'I'

力 meaning component

力  Meaning component

lì

  

power

Evolution

勝 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
勝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
勝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
勝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

胜 (勝) 

shèng

victory; excel, be better than; 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. [shēng]) able to bear; equal to (a task)

Most common words with 勝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

胜利

victory

胜

victory

战胜

to defeat

获胜

victorious

胜过

to excel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥əŋ

sying

shēng

equal to, capable of

*l̥əŋ-s

syingH

shèng

overcome; surpass


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 40.3011% of movies

860th most common character in movies

743rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

胜

Unicode

U+52DD

Shuowen

“勝，任也。从力，朕聲。”


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