HSK 6 · Sport

亚军 yàjūn “runner-up” in Chinese

Traditional 亞軍

What 亚军 means

  1. runner-up
  2. second place
  3. second place (in a sports contest)

How to say 亚军

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale亚yà4th 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

亚军 in a sentence

  1. 我们队得了亚军。

    Wǒmen duì dé le yàjūn.

    Our team came second.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 她是去年比赛的亚军。

    Tā shì qùnián bǐsài de yàjūn.

    She was runner-up in last year’s competition.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 亚军 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 亚 (yà) with each of its parts in a different colour
亚yàsecond
  • 一one · yī
  • 业business · yè
The character 军 (jūn) with each of its parts in a different colour
军jūnarmy
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 车cart · chē

How to write 亚军

亚 6 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.

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

Words related to 亚军

Words with 亚

亚洲Yàzhōu · Asia

Words with 军

冠军guànjūn · champion军事jūnshì · military affairs季军jìjūn · third place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田径tiánjìng · athletics跳跃tiàoyuè · to jump投掷tóuzhì · to throw选手xuǎnshǒu · competitor阵容zhènróng · line-up (of a team or cast)

FAQs

亚军 (yàjūn) means “runner-up” or “second place”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yàjūn: yà 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, 亚军 is written 亞軍. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yajun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 亚军 from the suggestions. Typing yajun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
亚军 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.