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
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Words Using This Kanji
340 words totalTrojan War
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Falklands War (1982)
Sino-French War (1884-1885)
Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
Battle of Hakodate (battle of the Boshin War; 1868-1869)
War of 1812
War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
Cod Wars (UK-Iceland confrontations over fishing rights; 1958, 1971, 1975)
Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871)
Balkan Wars (1912, 1913)
push-button war
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
(debate over) the problem of universals
family quarrel
family quarrel
indisputable