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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)

unfair competition

dispute

preventive war

labor dispute

disputant

dispute

to be divided (of a house, nation, etc.)

米西戦争べいせいせんそう

Spanish-American War (1898)

普仏戦争ふふつせんそう

Franco-Prussian War

日露戦争にちろせんそう

Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)

日清戦争にっしんせんそう

First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)

管轄争いかんかつあらそい

jurisdictional dispute

Gulf War (1990-1991)

arms race

middle-distance race

free competition

political strife

labor slowdown

dispute over water rights

価格戦争かかくせんそう

price war

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