紧张
Pinyin: jǐn zhāng
nervous
Example sentence
考试前我很紧张。
Kǎoshì qián wǒ hěn jǐnzhāng.
I'm nervous before exams.
What 紧张 means
紧张 (jǐn zhāng) is a Chinese word meaning “nervous”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 3 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.