Illustration: At the end of a community sumo bout, one amateur wrestler remains balanced inside the ring while the other stands just beyond the straw boundary, looking down at the foot that crossed it. The referee decisively directs an open hand toward the wrestler still inside.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

勝しょう敗はい

shouhai

victory or defeat, outcome

Example sentences

勝敗しょうはいは問題もんだいではない。
It doesn’t matter whether you win or not.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
喧嘩けんかの勝敗しょうはいは腕力わんりょくでは決きまらない。
Whether you win or lose the fight is not determined by your physical strength.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
激はげしい攻防こうぼうが続つづき、勝敗しょうはいは決きまらず夜よるになった。
They fiercely fought until nightfall without any decisive result.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 勝敗

勝victory; winOnショウKunかつ・まさる・すぐれる
敗failure; defeatOnハイKunやぶれる

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