HSK 5 · Sport

冠军 guànjūn “champion” in Chinese

Traditional 冠軍

What 冠军 means

  1. champion

How to say 冠军

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale冠guàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale军jūn1st tone, high and level

冠军 in a sentence

  1. 他在这次比赛中获得了冠军。

    Tā zài zhè cì bǐsài zhōng huòdé le guànjūn.

    He won first place in this competition.

    Sentence #14028315 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 只有一个人能成为世界冠军。问题是：会是谁呢？

    Zhǐyǒu yí ge rén néng chéngwéi shìjiè guànjūn. Wèntí shì: huì shì shéi ne?

    Only one person can become world champion. The question is: who will it be?

    Sentence #3367342 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我和他竞争冠军。

    Wǒ hé tā jìngzhēng guànjūn.

    He and I competed for the championship.

    Sentence #842489 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 冠军 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 冠 (guàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
冠guànto put on a hat
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 元first · yuán
  • 寸inch · cùn
The character 军 (jūn) with each of its parts in a different colour
军jūnarmy
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 车cart · chē

How to write 冠军

冠 9 strokes · 军 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

冠军 (guànjūn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 冠军 (guànjūn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 冠军

Words with 军

军事jūnshì · military affairs季军jìjūn · third place亚军yàjūn · runner-up将军jiāngjūn · general (military rank)军队jūnduì · army

More words: Sport & Leisure

操场cāochǎng · playground钓diào · to fish with a hook and bait对手duìshǒu · opponent合影héyǐng · to take a joint photo划huá · to row健身jiànshēn · to work out纪录jìlù · record (e.g. a sporting record)阵容zhènróng · line-up (of a team or cast)

FAQs

冠军 (guànjūn) means “champion”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it guànjūn: guàn with a 4th tone, then jūn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 冠军 is written 冠軍. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type guanjun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 冠军 from the suggestions. Typing guanjun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
冠军 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.