zhēng fēn duó miǎo

Traditional: 爭分奪秒

HSK 7–9

争分夺秒 (zhēng fēn duó miǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time
  2. 2making every second count

Characters in 争分夺秒

争zhēng · to strive for分fēn · to divide; to separate夺duó · to seize秒miǎo · second (unit of time)

Related words

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