争气
zhēng​qì HSK7

to work hard to excel

争气 爭氣 zhēng//qì
to work hard to excel
To resolve on improvement and work hard to win honor; determined not to fall short or lose face.
combative spirit
The determination to excel or a competitive, combative spirit.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.920 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
4.56 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)