jié

laboring hard

Senses

jié (bound form) short of money

in financial difficulty; short of money

jié (bound form) hard at work

(bound form) used to describe working hard or struggling with a task

jié (bound form) antagonistic

clashing or competing with one another; see 拮抗 jié​kàng

References

see 拮/拮 拮据/拮据
see 拮/拮 拮抗/拮抗