爭分奪秒 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 争分夺秒 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. zhēngfēnduómiǎo ㄓㄥ ㄈㄣ ㄉㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄠˇ 男 女 lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom) a race against time making every second count Character by character 爭(zhēng)strive for 分(fēn)divide 奪(duó)seize 秒(miǎo)second A Chinese word or character, or English Search 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