拼搏
pīn bó · HSK 7
to struggle
🤼 拼 piece-together/strive + 搏 grapple = throw yourself into the fight
Both characters carry the hand radical 扌, so it reads as two hands hard at work: 拼 is staking everything and 搏 is grappling. Together they mean to struggle or wrestle with full effort.
拼 — hand radical 扌 + 并 (combine)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of an action done by hand—putting things together—while 并 (bìng, 'combine, merge') supplies both the sound and reinforces the sense of joining. The character means to piece together, splice, or spell out by combining parts.