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胜仗 (shèng zhàng) — victorious battle; victory

Definition

胜仗 (shèngzhàng) means 'a victorious battle' — a specific win in a fight, not a broader triumph. The verb 打仗 'fight a battle' is what produces a 胜仗; you say 打了胜仗, not 胜利了.

noun
victorious battlevictory
Measure word · 场

Examples

  • 胜仗。
    Zhè chǎng shèng zhàng dǎ dé fēi cháng piào liang.
    This battle was fought very beautifully.
  • 胜仗，。
    Dǎ le shèng zhàng zhī hòu, shì bīng men dōu hěn gāo xìng.
    After winning the battle, the soldiers were all very happy.
  • 胜仗。
    Tā men qìng zhù zhè chǎng lái zhī bú yì de shèng zhàng.
    They celebrated this hard-won victory.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

胜shèngvictory
仗zhàngbattle

胜 (victory) and 仗 (battle) combine to mean a victorious battle.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
肉肉ròumeat
Sound part声符shēngfú
生
生shēng胜shèng
Same sound today

The simplified 胜 changes the traditional 勝 by replacing part of its sound side with 生; the left 肉 relates to meat.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Appears in
Military & Defense

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