Chinese Character Wiki
贏

yíng

win

Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 𣎆 represents the sound.

Components
貝 meaning component

貝  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

Shells were used as currency in ancient China.

𣎆 sound component

𣎆  Sound component

luò

  

legendary animal

Evolution

贏 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
贏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
贏 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
贏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

赢 (贏) 

yíng

win; surplus, gain, profit; to beat; to win; to profit

Most common words with 贏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

赢

to beat

赢得

to win

赢利

gain

赢家

winner

输赢

win or loss

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]eŋ

yeng

yíng

profit; surplus


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 48.3902% of movies

601st most common character in movies

1836th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

赢

Unicode

U+8D0F

Shuowen

“贏，有餘賈利也。从貝，聲。”


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