HSK 4 · Verbs

赢 yíng “to beat” in Chinese

Traditional 贏

What 赢 means

  1. to beat
  2. to win
  3. to profit

How to say 赢

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale赢yíng2nd tone, rising

赢 in a sentence

  1. 你认为比赛谁会赢？

    Nǐ rènwéi bǐsài shéi huì yíng?

    Who do you think will win the match?

    Sentence #10637529 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 好吧，你赢了。

    Hǎo ba, nǐ yíng le.

    OK, you win.

    Sentence #10449481 from Tatoeba

  3. 我们队从来就没赢过。

    Wǒmen duì cónglái jiù méi yíngguo.

    Our team has never won.

    Sentence #2454702 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 赢 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 赢 (yíng) drawn as one shape
赢yíngto beat

赢 is a single shape of 17 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 赢

赢 17 strokes

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

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

Words related to 赢

More words: Common Verbs

兴奋xīngfèn · excited演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)养成yǎngchéng · to cultivate引起yǐnqǐ · to give rise to预习yùxí · to prepare a lesson约会yuēhuì · appointment允许yǔnxǔ · to permit增加zēngjiā · to raise

FAQs

赢 (yíng) means “to beat” or “to win”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yíng: yíng with a 2nd 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, 赢 is written 贏. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ying with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 赢 from the suggestions. Typing ying into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
赢 is an HSK 4 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.