优势
yōu shì 1–4
superiority; dominance; advantage
- Characters
- 2
- 优 · 势
- Syllables
- 2
- yōu shì
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 2,080
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 优yōu6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 優superior, excellent; actor
- 势shì8 strokesHSK 3 traditional 勢power, force; tendency
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
这种科技的优势是什么?
Zhè zhǒng kē jì de yōu shì shì shén me
What is the advantage of this technology?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 优势. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 优秀yōu xiùHSK 4
outstanding; excellent
- 形势xíng shìHSK 4
circumstances; situation; terrain
- 优雅yōu yǎHSK 7
grace; graceful
- 姿势zī shìHSK 7
posture; position
- 优先yōu xiānHSK 5
to have priority; to take precedence
- 优yōuHSK 7
excellent; superior
- 局势jú shìHSK 7
situation; state (of affairs)
- 势力shì liHSK 5
power; influence; a force (military, political etc)
- 优点yōu diǎnHSK 3
merit; benefit; strong point; advantage
- 优惠yōu huìHSK 5
privilege; favorable (terms); preferential (treatment); discount (price)
- 趋势qū shìHSK 4
trend; tendency
- 优美yōu měiHSK 4
graceful; fine; elegant
- 强势qiáng shìHSK 6
strong; powerful; (linguistics) emphatic; intensive
- 气势qì shìHSK 7
imposing manner; loftiness; grandeur; energetic looks; vigor
- 手势shǒu shìHSK 7
gesture; sign; signal
- 伤势shāng shìHSK 7
condition of an injury
- 优质yōu zhìHSK 6
excellent quality
- 优良yōu liángHSK 4
fine; good; first-rate
- 势头shì tóuHSK 7
power; momentum; tendency; impetus; situation; the look of things
- 优越yōu yuèHSK 7
superior; superiority
- 优异yōu yìHSK 7
exceptional; outstandingly good
- 劣势liè shìHSK 7
inferior; disadvantaged
- 优化yōu huàHSK 7
to optimize
- 架势jià shiHSK 7
attitude; position (on an issue etc)