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紧张

緊張traditional

HSK 4#1073 by frequencyradical 糸

jǐn zhāng["a","ad","an"]

nervous; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce; keyed up

Measure word: 阵

Examples

别紧张。

Don't be nervous.

我也紧张。

I was nervous, too.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.