生存
shēng​cún HSK3

to survive

生存 shēng​cún
to survive verb
to exist; to survive; to live or remain alive

原因很简单：求生存。

yuán​yīn hěn jiǎn​dān: qiú shēng​cún.

The reason is simple: survival.

survival noun
the state or fact of continuing to live or exist

我们只是为了生存！

wǒ​men zhǐ​shì wèi​le shēng​cún!

We are just trying to survive!

Frequency
Movie subtitles
31.0 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
51.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Cross-References

Synonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)