English

1. to strive, endeavor, struggle
2. used in 掙扎|挣扎[zheng1 zha2]
3. to struggle to get free
4. (verb) Throw off
5. to earn
6. to strive to acquire
7. to pierce
8. to make (money)
9. to wedge in
10. to earn money through one's hard workunreviewed?
11. to move one's body in order to escape from sthunreviewed?

粵語

1. 用勞力獲取金錢、揾錢unreviewed?
2. 意圖脱離一啲嘢所以係咁郁unreviewed?

Variants

• 挣simplified

Words containing 掙

• 掙扎zang1 zaat3

  to struggle

• 硬掙ngaang6 zaang6

  (verb) to vie for; to hardly argue or debate

• 掙脫zang1 tyut3

  to throw off

• 手掙sau2 zang1

  elbow

• 掙錢zang1 cin4

  to make money

• 掙揣zang1 cyun2

  see 掙扎|挣扎[zheng1 zha2]

• 垂死掙扎seoi4 sei2 zang1 zaat3

  deathbed struggle

• 掙個zaang6 go3
• 掙得zang1 dak1

  to earn (income)

• 唔掙在m4 zaang1 zoi6

  doesn't matter

• 掙滿晒zaang6 mun5 saai3
• 撒囈掙saat3 ngai6 zang1

  (coll.) to talk in one's sleep; to sleepwalk