HSK 5 · Verbs

使劲儿 shǐjìnr “to exert all one’s strength” in Chinese

Traditional 使勁兒

What 使劲儿 means

  1. to exert all one’s strength

How to say 使劲儿

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale使shǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale劲jìn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own儿rneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

使劲儿 in a sentence

  1. 门太紧了，得使劲儿推。

    Mén tài jǐn le, děi shǐjìnr tuī.

    The door is stiff, so you have to push hard.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 大家一起使劲儿！

    Dàjiā yìqǐ shǐjìnr!

    Everyone push together!

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 使劲儿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 使 (shǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
使shǐto make
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 吏government official · lì
The character 劲 (jìn) drawn as one shape
劲jìnstrength

劲 is a single shape of 7 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿rnon-syllabic diminutive suffix
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 兒, a child drawn with a big head. Only the legs 儿 are left today.

How to write 使劲儿

使 8 strokes · 劲 7 strokes · 儿 2 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

使劲儿 (shǐjìnr) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 使劲儿 (shǐjìnr). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 使劲儿

Words with 使

使shǐ · to make使用shǐyòng · to use即使jíshǐ · even if大使馆dàshǐguǎn · embassy促使cùshǐ · to induce使命shǐmìng · mission致使zhìshǐ · to cause

Words with 劲

干劲gànjìn · drive

Words with 儿

儿子érzi · son女儿nǚ'ér · daughter哪儿nǎr · where这儿zhèr · here那儿nàr · there一点儿yìdiǎnr · a little面条儿miàntiáor · noodles好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing有点儿yǒudiǎnr · slightly男孩儿nánháir · boy

More words: Common Verbs

生产shēngchǎn · to produce省略shěnglüè · to leave out失去shīqù · to lose实现shíxiàn · to achieve属于shǔyú · to be classified as甩shuǎi · to throw撕sī · to tear碎suì · to shatter

FAQs

使劲儿 (shǐjìnr) means “to exert all one’s strength”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shǐjìnr: shǐ with a 3rd tone, then jìn with a 4th tone, then r with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 使劲儿 is written 使勁兒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shijinr with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 使劲儿 from the suggestions. Typing shijinr into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
使劲儿 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.