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争

JLPT N3 SL4 6 strokes Frequency: #271

Meanings

Contend, Dispute, Argue

Radicals

亅

Decomposition

⿱⺈⿻彐亅

Etymology

Ideographic: Simplified form of 爭, two hands 爪 and 彐 fighting over 亅

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 6

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 corner top-left-to-bottom-right

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 horizontal bottom-to-top

6 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ソウ sou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

あらそ araso

いか ika

Words Using This Kanji

340 words total

Other (20 words)

tenancy troubles

war of aggression

post war

war crime

war widow

war crimes tribunal

war

total war

to accuse

dispute

point at issue

argument

dispute

how

contest

struggle for supremacy

争いあらそい

fight

争い怒るあらそいいかる

to be angry and quarrelsome

争訟そうしょう

dispute by legal action

価格戦争かかくせんそう

price war

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