lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count
trad. 爭分奪秒
Also written 爭分奪秒【zhēng fēn duó miǎo】
Characters in this word
4争
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to strive for, to vie for, to argue or debate, deficient or lacking (dialect), how or what (literary)
- Pinyin
- zhēng
- Traditional
- 爭
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 13204 of 2500
分
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to divide; to separate, to distribute; to allocate, to distinguish (good and bad), (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局[fen1 ju2]), fraction, one tenth (of certain units), unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm, minute (unit of time), minute (angular measurement unit), a point (in sports or games), 0.01 yuan (unit of money)
- Pinyin
- fēn
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 1072 of 2500
夺
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to seize, to take away forcibly, to wrest control of, to compete or strive for, to force one's way through, to leave out, to lose
- Pinyin
- duó
- Traditional
- 奪
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 25848 of 2500
秒
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second (unit of time), arc second (angular measurement unit), (coll.) instantly
- Pinyin
- miǎo
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 1641 of 2500