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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
- —対テロ戦争War on Terror (2001-)
- —早食い競争speed-eating contest
- —独占的競争monopolistic competition
- —不完全競争imperfect competition
- —戦争犠牲者war victim
- —ボーア戦争(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
- —アロー戦争Arrow War (the second Opium War; 1856-1860)
- —十五年戦争Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; fifteen years' war
- —大祖国戦争Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)
- —ビルマ戦争Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
- —ボタン戦争push-button war; war started or ended with the push of a button (e.g. to launch a nuclear missile)
- —イラク戦争Iraq War (2003-2011)
- —スエズ戦争Suez War (1956)
- —企業競争力business competitiveness; corporate competitiveness
- —六日間戦争Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967); Third Arab-Israeli War
- —戦争ごっこplaying soldiers
- —三里塚闘争Sanrizuka Struggle; campaign against the construction of Narita airport
- —借り物競争scavenger hunt race
- —同盟市戦争Social War (91-87 BC); Marsic War; Italic War
- —戦争神経症war neurosis; combat fatigue; battle fatigue; shell shock