The Chinese team won the championship at this competition.
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The fourth-tone guàn reading covers 'first / best' and 'to prefix a name': 冠军 (champion), 夺冠 (to take the title), 冠亚军 (champion and runner-up), 冠名 (to take naming rights). For the noun 'hat / crown' use the guān reading.
Top cover radical, a flat lid with two short downward hooks, picturing a cap pulled over the head. This is the indexing radical for 冠 and supplies the core image of headwear, the same lid that crowns 军 and sits over 写.
Middle 元 originally pictures a person with a marked head, meaning head / top / primary. Sitting under the cover and above the hand, it tells you exactly what gets capped: the head. Reinforces 冠 as the highest formal headpiece.
Bottom-right 寸 depicts a hand with a thumb mark, here the hand that places the cap. The full picture: a hand fitting a hat over a person's head. This scene also licenses the verb reading guàn 'to crown', as in champion.
