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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 争夺

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
争夺 zhēng duó - to fight over
- to contest
- to vie over

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 6 5,500 4,227 9,709

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
争 zhēng- to strive for
- to vie for
- to argue or debate
- deficient or lacking (dialect)
- how or what (literary)
夺 duó- to seize
- to take away forcibly
- to wrest control of
- to compete or strive for
- to force one's way through
- to leave out
- to lose

Other Words Containing 争夺

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
争夺 6 6 5,500 4,227 9,709
争夺战 - - 25,450 19,837 32,690