挣 — Chinese character
挣
zhēng
to struggle, to strive, to endeavor
- Pinyin
- zhēng
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 扌 争
- Formation
- ideographic — To fight 争 by hand 扌; 争 also provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 掙
Common words with 挣
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挣扎 (掙扎) | zhēng zhá | to struggle |
| 挣钱 (掙錢) | zhèng qián | to make money |
| 挣脱 (掙脫) | zhèng tuō | to throw off; to struggle free of |
| 挣得 (掙得) | zhèng dé | to earn (income); to make (money) |
| 垂死挣扎 (垂死掙扎) | chuí sǐ zhēng zhá | deathbed struggle; final struggle (idiom) |
| 挣揣 (掙揣) | zhèng chuài | see 挣扎 (zhēng zhá) |
| 撒呓挣 (撒囈掙) | sā yì zheng | (coll.) to talk in one's sleep; to sleepwalk |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.