掙扎

zhēng zhá

B1 Level 5
Intransitive verb

掙扎 (zhēng zhá) is a Chinese word meaning “to struggle”. It sits at TOCFL Level 5 (CEFR B1) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard.

Definition

  1. to struggle

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Example

要不要放棄,他心裡很掙扎。

He struggled inside over whether to give up.

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).