Meanings
Contend, Dispute, Argue
Radicals
Decomposition
⿱⺈⿻彐亅
Etymology
Ideographic: Simplified form of 爭, two hands 爪 and 彐 fighting over 亅
Writing Practice
Stroke Order
Words Using This Kanji
340 words totalBattle of Ueno (battle of the Boshin war; 1868)
Crimean War (1853-1856)
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)
Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)
German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Arrow War (the second Opium War; 1856-1860)
(first) Indochina War (1946-1954)
War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
religious war
Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)
Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654, 1665-1667, 1672-1674)
civil war
limited war
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)