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竞赛

jìng sài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 競賽

竞赛 (jìng sài) means "to compete; to race". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 竞赛 means

1. to compete; to race
2. contest; competition; match; race

The characters in 竞赛

• 竞jìngto compete; to contend; to struggle
• 赛sàito compete; competition; match

Example sentences

• 他试着赢得竞赛。
  Tā shìzhe yíngdé jìngsài.
  He endeavored to win the contest.
• 太空竞赛是历史上激动人心的时刻。
  The space race was an exciting time in history.
• 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 dì yī míng.
  My father participated in a cooking contest and came in first.
• 在奥运会的竞赛中，金牌代表第一名，银牌代表第二名，铜牌是第三名。
  Zài àoyùnhuì de jìngsài zhōng, jīnpái dàibiǎo dì-yī míng, yínpái dàibiǎo dì-èr míng, tóngpái shì dì-sān míng.
  In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.

Words starting with 竞赛

• 竞赛者jìng sài zhěplayer

Words containing 竞赛

• 军备竞赛jūn bèi jìng sàiarms race; armament(s) race

Sounds the same

Read jìng sài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 径赛track events (athletics competition)
• 迳赛track

Where 竞赛 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jǐng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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