奪
duó HSK6

take by force

夺 (奪) duó
compete verb
to strive or contend for something

这支球队正在努力夺冠。

zhè zhī qiú​duì zhèng​zài nǔ​lì duó guàn.

This team is striving to win the championship.

lose verb
to be deprived of or lose something such as life or rights

那场大火夺去了很多人的生命。

nà cháng dà huǒ duó qù le hěn​duō rén de shēng​mìng.

That fire claimed many lives.

omit verb
to leave out or miss characters in a text

校对发现文稿中夺了两个字。

jiào​duì fā​xiàn wén​gǎo zhōng duó le liǎng gè zì.

The proofreader found that two words were missing from the manuscript.

seize verb
to take away forcibly or wrest control of

他夺走了我的钱包。

tā duó zǒu le wǒ de qián​bāo.

He snatched my wallet away.

force through idiom
to break or push one's way through a barrier or opening

泪水忍不住夺眶而出。

lèi​shuǐ rěn​bu​zhù duó​kuàng'ér​chū.

Tears couldn't help but well up and overflow from her eyes.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,199th most common 114.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,326th most common 57.0 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
38.4 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
22.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
夺
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+596A

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)