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争 kanji
contend, dispute, argue
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ソウ
Kun readings
あらそういかでか
Variant forms
爭Words with 争
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —権力抗争power struggle
- —我が闘争Mein Kampf (by Adolf Hitler, 1925-1926)
- —楚漢戦争Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BCE); Chu-Han War
- —三十年戦争Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- —戦争未亡人war widow
- —大規模戦争all-out war; full-scale war
- —不公平競争unfair competition
- —中距離競争middle-distance race
- —戦争犯罪人war criminal
- —冷たい戦争cold war; the Cold War
- —アヘン戦争Opium War (1840-42)
- —経済競争力economic competitiveness
- —国際競争力international competitiveness; global competitiveness
- —戦争賠償金war reparations
- —全面核戦争all-out nuclear war
- —非対称戦争asymmetric war
- —暴力団抗争gangland war
- —ポエニ戦争Punic Wars (between Rome and Carthage)
- —大東亜戦争Greater East Asian War (1941-1945); Pacific War
- —反テロ戦争War on Terror (2001-)