争先恐后

Pinyin
zhēngxiānkǒnghòu
English
strive to be the first; vie with each other
HSK level
HSK 6

争先恐后 is pronounced zhēngxiānkǒnghòu and means “strive to be the first; vie with each other”. It is one of the words in the HSK 6 vocabulary, a level of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s standardised Chinese proficiency test. Recognising a word on a page and recalling it when you need it are different skills, and only the second survives a conversation — which is why LexiTrail shows you 争先恐后 again just before you would have forgotten it, rather than on a fixed schedule.

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