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斗争

dòu zhēng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 鬥爭

斗争 (dòu zhēng) means "struggle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 斗争 means

1. a struggle
2. fight
3. battle

The characters in 斗争

• 斗dòuto fight; to struggle; to condemn
• 争zhēngto strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate

Example sentences

• 斗争结束了。
  The fight is over.
• 难民与饥饿作斗争。
  Nànmín yǔ jī'è zuò dòuzhēng.
  The refugees struggled against hunger.
• 我和睡魔作了斗争。
  I fought against sleep.
• 我们在跟时间斗争。
  We're fighting against time.
• 这是个很艰难的斗争。
  Zhè shì gè hěn jiānnán de dòuzhēng.
  It was an uphill struggle.
• 汤姆分不清游戏与斗争。
  Tom couldn't tell the difference between play and struggle.

Words starting with 斗争

• 斗争性dòu zhēng xìngassertiveness; combative nature

Words containing 斗争

• 阶级斗争jiē jí dòu zhēngclass struggle
• 内部斗争nèi bù dòu zhēnginternal power struggle
• 权力斗争quán lì dòu zhēngpower struggle
• 正义斗争zhèng yì dòu zhēngrighteous struggle
• 反右派斗争Fǎn yòu pài Dòu zhēngAnti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign…
• 反袁斗争fǎn Yuán dòu zhēngwar of 1915 against Yuan Shikai and for the Republic

Where 斗争 is taught

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

Go deeper

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