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to strive; to struggle
HSK 4
to fight / to engage in combat / struggle / battle / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
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  *斗* | 斗* | *斗
to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together
HSK 7-9
to struggle
HSK 7-9
to struggle / to wrestle
HSK 7-9
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
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  *挣* | 挣* | *挣
to struggle to get free / to strive to acquire / to make (money)
HSK 5
to struggle / to fight / struggle
to struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
to take (after a struggle) / to wrest / to seize / to capture / to win (a trophy)
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu
to continue the struggle (idiom); to persist / unremitting efforts
lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me
struggle
to go ashore; to climb ashore / (fig.) to achieve a stable and secure life after a period of struggle (e.g. to get a government job, be admitted to a desirable university, or finally pay off one's debts)
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
civil war / internal struggle
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  *拚* | 拚* | *拚
to strive for / to struggle / to disregard / to reject
the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao" 道德經|道德经)
power struggle
lit. lone army putting up a brave fight (idiom) / fig. (of a person or group of people) struggling hard without support
to throw off / to struggle free of / Taiwan pr. [zheng1 tuo1]
to wrestle; to fight; to struggle
HSK 7-9
to fight bravely / (fig.) to struggle / to work hard
a heavy load and a long road / fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)
internal power struggle
survival / the struggle to eke out a living / to seek for continued existence
deathbed struggle / final struggle (idiom)
(coll.) to jump about; to be active; to be lively / (coll.) (fig.) to struggle (before succumbing); to be alive and kicking (esp. toward the end of one's life)
power struggle
to fight bitterly / hard struggle
to contend for hegemony / a power struggle
struggle session
to struggle for mastery / to strive for supremacy
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  *竞* | 竞* | *竞
to compete / to contend / to struggle
to duel / a duel / decisive struggle
lit. to break through a cocoon and turn into a butterfly (idiom) / fig. to emerge strong after a period of struggle / to get to a better place after going through difficult period
struggle, criticize, and transform (Cultural Revolution catchcry)
one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs
succession struggle / dispute over inheritance
internal strife / power struggle / (of members of an organization) to fight each other
to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death
a blood soaked and hard-fought struggle (idiom)
where the wind and the waves are the fiercest / at the heart of the struggle
righteous struggle
to resist / to struggle / to sustain
lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom)
to intertwine; to band together (with); to link up (with) / twisted; tangled / confused; to be at a loss / to struggle (mentally) with (sth); to overthink; to feel conflicted
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle
to struggle to cope (with a situation) / to be at one's wits' end
bitter struggle / hard battle / arduous effort
to buy a struggling business and keep it going; to take over a business
history written in blood / epic period of struggle and sacrifice
to fight / to struggle / to wage war
class struggle
(idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door
to have difficulty getting by / to struggle (financially etc)
to dispute / to struggle for mastery
to abandon armed struggle and return to raising cattle (idiom)
constant bickering and fighting (idiom); constantly at each other's throats / struggle for personal gain
(of an entrepreneur) to buy up a struggling business / (finance) to snap up shares sold off by others / (neologism) (slang) to take as a girlfriend a woman who was dumped by her ex for sleeping around


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