竞争 jìngzhēng▶ competir

Stroke order

竞争 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 竞 — 10 strokes
• 争 — 6 strokes

Senses

1. to compete
2. competition

Example sentences

• 他们在比赛中竞争。Tāmen zài bǐsài zhōng jìngzhēng.They compete in the match.
• 现在找工作竞争很大。Xiànzài zhǎo gōngzuò jìngzhēng hěn dà.There is a lot of competition in job hunting now.

Related words

• 争取esforzarse por
• 争论debate
• 战争Guerra
• 争夺Luchar por
• 争气intentar ganar crédito por
• 争端Disputa

竞争 is pronounced jìngzhēng and means “competir”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 竞争 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.