只爭朝夕 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 只争朝夕 zhǐzhēngzhāoxī ㄓˇ ㄓㄥ ㄓㄠ ㄒㄧ to seize every minute to make the best use of one's time idiom Character by character 只(zhǐ)only 爭(zhēng)strive for 朝(zhāo)morning 夕(xī)sunset A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0