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胜负

shèng fù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 勝負

胜负 (shèng fù) means "victory or defeat; the outcome of a battle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 胜负 means

1. victory or defeat
2. the outcome of a battle

The characters in 胜负

• 胜shèngvictory; success; to beat
• 负fùto bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on

Words starting with 胜负

• 胜负欲shèng fù yùdesire to win; competitive drive

Words containing 胜负

• 决胜负jué shèng fùto determine the outcome; to determine success or failure
• 不分胜负bù fēn shèng fùunable to determine victory or defeat (idiom); evenly matched; to come out even; to tie

Sounds the same

Read shèng fù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 圣父Holy Father; God the Father (in the Christian Trinity)

Where 胜负 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shèng–shí (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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