掙
zhèngzhēng HSK5

strive

挣 (掙) zhèng frequency
earn verb
to strive to acquire or make money

他靠打工挣了不少零花钱。

tā kào dǎ​gōng zhèng le bù​shǎo líng​huā​qián.

He earned a lot of pocket money by working part-time jobs.

struggle verb
to struggle to get free

他努力挣脱了手上的绳索。

tā nǔ​lì zhèng tuō le shǒu shàng de shéng​suǒ.

He struggled to break free from the ropes on his hands.

挣 (掙) zhēng
struggle verb
used in 挣扎 zhēng​zhá

受伤的小鸟在地上挣扎。

shòu​shāng de xiǎo​niǎo zài dì shàng zhēng zhá.

The injured bird was struggling on the ground.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,875th most common 42.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,568th most common 38.7 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
24.3 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
16.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
挣
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6399

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