| 赢家 | yíng jiā | winner |   |
| 得主 | dé zhǔ | recipient (of an award) / winner (in a competition) | |
| 胜利者 | shèng lì zhě | victor / winner | |
| 胜者 | shèng zhě | winner | |
| 幸运儿 | xìng yùn ér | winner / lucky guy / person who always gets good breaks | |
| 黑马 | hēi mǎ | dark horse / fig. unexpected winner | |
| 擂台赛 | lèi tái sài | single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated) | |
| 奖得主 | jiǎng dé zhǔ | recipient of an award / prize winner | |
| 输家 | shū jiā | loser (as opposed to winner 贏家|赢家[ying2 jia1]) | |
| 决胜负 | jué shèng fù | a tie-break / to determine the winner | |
| 邓亚萍 | Dèng Yà píng | Deng Yaping (1973-), table tennis player, several times world and Olympic winner | |
| 李远哲 | Lǐ Yuǎn zhé | Yuan T. Lee (1936-), Taiwanese-born Chemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1986 | |
| 李宁 | Lǐ Níng | Li Ning (1963-), PRC gymnast, winner of three gold medals at Los Angeles 1984 Olympic games | |
| 莫言 | Mò Yán | Mo Yan (1955-), Chinese novelist, winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| 太阳照在桑干河上 | Tài yáng Zhào Zài Sāng gān Hé Shàng | The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize | |
| 本因坊 | Běn yīn fāng | Honinbo, major school of Go in Japan (1612-1940) / title held by the winner of the Honinbo Go tournament (1941-) | |
| 约翰·厄普代克 | | John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner | |
| 崔琦 | Cuī Qí | Daniel C. Tsui (1939-), Chinese-born American physicist, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| 约翰・厄普代克 | Yuē hàn · E4 pǔ dài kè | John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner | |
| 投壶 | tóu hú | ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment | |
| 约翰·厄普代克 | Yuē hàn · E4 pǔ dài kè | John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner | |
| 影后 | yǐng hòu | movie queen / best actress award winner | |
| 影帝 | yǐng dì | (male) superstar of the silver screen / best actor award winner | |
| 赢家通吃 | yíng jiā tōng chī | winner takes all | |
