Chinese Character Wiki

掙

zhēng, zhèng

strive

To fight 爭 by hand 扌; 爭 also provides the pronunciation

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

爭 sound,meaning component

爭  Sound Meaning component

zhēng

  

strife, quarrel

Evolution

掙 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
掙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

挣 (掙) 

zhēng

to strive, endeavor, struggle; to earn; to pierce; to wedge in; see 掙扎|挣扎[zhēng​zhá]

挣 (掙) 

zhèng

to struggle to get free; to strive to acquire; to make (money)

Most common words with 掙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挣

to make (money)

挣扎

to struggle

挣钱

to make money

挣脱

to throw off

垂死挣扎

deathbed struggle

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.1094% of movies

1568th most common character in movies

1875th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

挣

Unicode

U+6399


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