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优势

yōu shì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 優勢

优势 (yōu shì) means "advantage; superiority". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 优势 means

1. superiority
2. dominance
3. advantage

The characters in 优势

• 优yōuexcellent; superior
• 势shìpower; influence; potential

Example sentences

• 懂得用电脑是一种优势。
  Dǒngde yòng diànnǎo shì yīzhǒng yōushì.
  It is an advantage to be able to use a computer.
• 这种科技的优势是什么？
  Zhèzhǒng kējì de yōushì shì shénme?
  What is the advantage to this technology?
• 这种科技的优势是什幺？
  What is the advantage of this technology?
• 主场队总是比对手有优势。
  Zhǔchǎng duì zǒngshì bǐduì shǒu yǒu yōushì.
  The home team always have an advantage over their opponents.
• 在学校时我学了中文是个优势。
  Zài xuéxiào shí wǒ xué le Zhōngwén shì gè yōushì.
  It was an advantage having learned Chinese while I was in school.
• 他们很努力地超过对方获得优势。
  Tāmen hěn nǔlì de chāoguò duìfāng huòdé yōushì.
  They tried very hard to gain an advantage over one another.

Words containing 优势

• 占优势zhàn yōu shìto predominate; to occupy a dominant position
• 顶端优势dǐng duān yōu shì(botany) apical dominance

Where 优势 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Advantage, Leisure & Grace (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yōu shì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.