How do you write down the result of a drawn xiangqi game?
These answers restate the rules implemented by our open-source engine, which follows the WXF laws and is regression-tested against the official 110-diagram repetition casebook. Where an answer refers to a specific position, that position lives on the linked reference page, where the build verifies it against the engine before publishing.
Direct answer
The same way chess does: ½-½ at the end of the move list. Xiangqi notation does not distinguish why a game was drawn, so a draw by agreement, by the sixty-move rule and by insufficient mating material are all written identically. The reason, if it matters, belongs in a note alongside the score rather than in the notation itself.
Where the reason actually gets recorded
Tournament bulletins and databases often add a short remark next to the result, such as "60-move rule" or "agreed", but this is annotation layered on top of the game record, not part of the core notation. The core system only has three results: 1-0, 0-1 and ½-½.
Why this matters more here than in chess
Xiangqi's repetition rules can rule a draw against one side rather than producing a shared ½-½, when a position is adjudicated as a loss for whoever was checking or chasing without variation. A plain draw score tells you nothing about whether that happened; you have to read the moves. See how to record a game for the rest of the header conventions.
Related questions
Is there a symbol for the sixty-move rule specifically?
Not in standard notation. It is usually noted in prose next to the result rather than encoded in a symbol.
Does a repetition loss look different from a normal loss?
Not in the final score. It is still 1-0 or 0-1; only the game notes would explain why.
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