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挣扎

zhēng zhá

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 掙扎

挣扎 (zhēng zhá) means "to struggle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挣扎 means

1. to struggle

The characters in 挣扎

• 挣zhèngto struggle to get free; to strive to acquire; to make (money)
• 扎zhāto prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer…

Example sentences

• 我挣扎着挤出地铁。
  Wǒ zhēngzhá zhe jǐchū dìtiě.
  I struggled to get out of the subway.

Words containing 挣扎

• 垂死挣扎chuí sǐ zhēng zhádeathbed struggle; final struggle (idiom)

Where 挣扎 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhèng–zhēng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhēng zhá correctly.
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