挣钱
zhèng​qián HSK5

to make money

挣钱 掙錢 zhèng//qián
to make money verb + noun
to earn money through labor or effort

你想挣钱就得先花钱。

nǐ xiǎng zhèng qián jiù děi xiān huā qián.

You've got to spend money to make money.

我从没听过谁能靠写作挣钱的。

wǒ cóng méi tīng guo shéi néng kào xiě​zuò zhèng qián de.

I've never heard of anyone making money from writing.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
8.53 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
9.76 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5

Cross-References

Synonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)