挣 Traditional (Taiwan): 掙 On the HSK 5 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1. zhèng ㄓㄥˋ to struggle to get free to strive to acquire to make (money) Words with 挣 Starting with 挣 挣扎 Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT