HSK 6 · Sport

竞赛 jìngsài “competition” in Chinese

Traditional 競賽

What 竞赛 means

  1. competition
  2. contest
  3. race
  4. to compete
  5. match

How to say 竞赛

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale竞jìng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale赛sài4th tone, falling

竞赛 in a sentence

  1. 太空竞赛是历史上激动人心的时期。

    Tàikōng jìngsài shì lìshǐ shàng jīdòng rénxīn de shíqī.

    The space race was an exciting period in history.

    Sentence #818822 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他试着赢得竞赛。

    Tā shì zhe yíngdé jìngsài.

    He tried to win the contest.

    Sentence #784556 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我爸爸参加了料理竞赛并得了第一名。

    Wǒ bàba cānjiā le liàolǐ jìngsài bìng dé le dìyī míng.

    My dad entered a cooking contest and came first.

    Sentence #334561 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 竞赛 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 竞 (jìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
竞jìngto compete
  • 立stand · lì
  • 兄elder brother · xiōng
The character 赛 (sài) drawn as one shape
赛sàito compete

赛 is a single shape of 14 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 竞赛

竞 10 strokes · 赛 14 strokes

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

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

Words related to 竞赛

Words with 竞

竞争jìngzhēng · to compete竞选jìngxuǎn · to run for office

Words with 赛

比赛bǐsài · sports match决赛juésài · finals (of a competition)

More words: Sport & Leisure

打猎dǎliè · to hunt防守fángshǒu · to defend较量jiàoliàng · contest季军jìjūn · third place联欢liánhuān · to have a get-together攀登pāndēng · to climb潜水qiánshuǐ · to dive气功qìgōng · qigong (breathing exercises)

FAQs

竞赛 (jìngsài) means “competition” or “contest”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jìngsài: jìng with a 4th tone, then sài with a 4th 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, 竞赛 is written 競賽. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jingsai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 竞赛 from the suggestions. Typing jingsai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
竞赛 is an HSK 6 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.