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旗开得胜

qí kāi dé shèng

4-character word Traditional 旗開得勝

What 旗开得胜 means

1. lit. to win a victory on raising the flag (idiom); fig. to start on sth and have immediate success
2. success in a single move

The characters in 旗开得胜

• 旗qíflag; variant of 旗
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…
• 胜shèngvictory; success; to beat