不分胜败
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Traditional: 不分勝敗
Evenly matched: a contest ends, or drags on, with neither side clearly ahead. Used of games, fights and arguments in which the two sides are equal in strength.
Hai bên ngang sức, đấu mãi mà không bên nào thắng hẳn bên nào. Dùng cho trận đấu, cuộc thi hay cuộc tranh luận kết thúc hoặc kéo dài mà chưa rõ ai hơn ai.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “bất phân thắng bại” = 不分勝敗 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “bất phân thắng bại” (bat-phan-thang-bai). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “不分胜败” mean?
Evenly matched: a contest ends, or drags on, with neither side clearly ahead. Used of games, fights and arguments in which the two sides are equal in strength. Literally: not telling victory from defeat
Is “不分胜败” formal or informal?
不分胜败 is generally neutral.