# 勝 — Win

Frequency rank 270 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 円 (Yen), less common than 島 (Island).

- On’yomi: しょう
- Kun’yomi: か、まさ
- Radical: 力 Power (Kangxi 19)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 3
- Strokes: 12

Under the hooked crescent the one bent arm that lifts trucks takes the bull by both horns and screws its head down into the yard dirt until the neck goes.

In words:

- 勝つ かつ — to win
- 勝ち かち — win,victory
- 勝る まさる — to excel;to surpass;to outrival

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