win someone's heart
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- 1 win someone's heart、win someone's favor、gain someone's support
It means to gain someone's affection, approval, trust, or support through one's qualities or actions.
win someone's heart、win someone's favor、gain someone's support
To make someone like, accept, or support a person, thing, or idea.
Learning notes
Explanation
ชนะใจ combines ชนะ (“to win”) and ใจ (“heart”), but it normally does not refer to defeating someone in a contest. It describes gaining affection, approval, trust, or support through appealing qualities, ability, sincerity, or actions. A common pattern is ชนะใจ + person. The pattern ชนะใจ + person + ด้วย + means or reason expresses how that person was won over. The subject can be a person, but it can also be a dish, product, work, or proposal. The expression can be romantic, though it is not limited to romance.
Usage
It is commonly used when someone earns trust through sincere actions or when a product, dish, performance, or proposal appeals to customers, audiences, or judges. It occurs in romance, everyday conversation, advertising, business, and news reporting.
Caution
It is not normally used for defeating an opponent in a game or competition; use an expression such as ชนะคู่แข่ง for that meaning. To clearly express overcoming one's own weakness or emotions, เอาชนะตัวเอง or เอาชนะใจตัวเอง is generally clearer.
Differences from similar words
1 win someone's heart synonyms
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พิชิตใจ also means to capture someone's heart, but it can sound more romantic or dramatic. ชนะใจ is broader and commonly applies to customers, audiences, judges, and others whose approval or support is gained.
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เอาชนะใจ is very close in meaning and also describes winning someone over. ชนะใจ is the shorter, basic form commonly used for this idea.