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Definition(s) for: 争强好胜

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
争强好胜 zhēng qiáng hào shèng - competitive
- ambitious and aggressive
- to desire to beat others

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 47,237 27,843

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)
强 qiáng- surname Qiang
强 jiàng- stubborn
- unyielding
强 qiáng- strong
- powerful
- better
- slightly more than
- vigorous
- violent
- best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]
强 qiǎng- to force
- to compel
- to strive
- to make an effort
强 jiàng- variant of 強|强[jiang4]
强 qiáng- variant of 強|强[qiang2]
强 qiǎng- variant of 強|强[qiang3]
好 hǎo- good
- appropriate; proper
- all right!
- (before a verb) easy to
- (before a verb) good to
- (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
- (verb complement indicating completion)
- (of two people) close; on intimate terms
- (after a personal pronoun) hello
好 hào- to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
胜 shèng- victory
- success
- to beat
- to defeat
- to surpass
- victorious
- superior to
- to get the better of
- better than
- surpassing
- superb (of vista)
- beautiful (scenery)
- wonderful (view)
- (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear
- equal to (a task)

Other Words Containing 争强好胜

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo