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搏斗

bó dòu

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

搏斗 (bó dòu) means "to wrestle; to fight; to struggle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 搏斗 means

1. to wrestle; to fight; to struggle

The characters in 搏斗

• 搏bóto fight; to combat; to seize
• 斗dòuto fight; to struggle; to condemn

Example sentences

• 角斗士在罗马竞技场中搏斗。
  Gladiators fought in the Colosseum.
• 凯萨琳去年结婚之前，有人表达了担心说，因为她出生于平民家庭，可能要与被突然置于公众视野来的压力搏斗。
  Kǎi Sà lín qùnián jiéhūn zhīqián, yǒurén biǎodá le dānxīn shuō, yīnwèi tā chūshēng yú píngmín jiātíng, kěnéng yào yǔ bèi tūrán zhìyú gōngzhòng shìyě lái de yālì bódòu.
  Before Kate was married last year, some expressed concerns that as she was born a commoner, she would struggle with the pressure of being thrust into the public eye.

Sounds the same

Read bó dòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 博斗to fight or argue on a blogging site (netspeak)

Where 搏斗 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bó–bǔ (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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