掙

How to write 掙, stroke by stroke

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What 掙 means

zhēng

used in 掙扎

zhèng

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

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

Made of 扌 + 爭

Words with 掙

• 掙扎zhēng zháto struggle
• 掙錢zhèng qiánto make money
• 掙脫zhèng tuōto throw off; to struggle free of; Taiwan pr. [zheng1 tuo1]
• 掙得zhèng déto earn (income); to make (money)
• 垂死掙扎chuí sǐ zhēng zhádeathbed struggle; final struggle (idiom)
• 撒囈掙sā yì zheng(coll.) to talk in one's sleep; to sleepwalk
• 掙揣zhèng chuàisee 挣扎

掙 in a sentence

• 掙錢是他的宗教。

  zhèng qián shì tā de zōng jiào 。

  Making money is his religion.

• 我掙扎著擠出地鐵。

  wǒ zhēng zhá zhe jǐ chū dì tiě 。

  I struggled to get out of the subway.

• 我一天掙一百歐元。

  wǒ yì tiān zhèng yì bǎi ōu yuán 。

  I make €100 a day.

• 掙的越多錢，就花得越多錢。

  zhèng de yuè duō qián ， jiù huā dé yuè duō qián 。

  The more you earn, the more you spend.

• 我想掙點錢，所以我一週打三天小時工。

  wǒ xiǎng zhèng diǎn qián ， suǒ yǐ wǒ yì zhōu dǎ sān tiān xiǎo shí gōng 。

  I wanted to earn some money, so I worked part time three days a week.

Characters that sound like 掙

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