It was an advantage having learned Chinese while I was in school.
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优势
Traditional: 優勢
yōu shì
HSK 3.0 · 3HSK 2.0 · 5
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yōu shì · jau1 sai3 (Jyutping)
- superiority
- dominance
- advantage
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
They tried very hard to gain an advantage over one another.
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