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挣扎

zhēng zhá

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 掙扎

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)