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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
- —借家争議tenancy troubles
- —侵略戦争war of aggression; war of conquest
- —戦争犯罪war crime
- —全面戦争total war; all-out war
- —地域紛争regional conflict
- —朝鮮戦争Korean War (1950-1953)
- —直接競争direct competition
- —内部闘争internal struggle
- —南ア戦争(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
- —南北戦争American Civil War (1861-1865)
- —百家争鳴let a hundred schools of thought contend
- —予防戦争preventive war
- —労働争議labor dispute; labour dispute; industrial dispute; strike
- —米西戦争Spanish-American War (1898)
- —普仏戦争Franco-Prussian War
- —日清戦争First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)
- —日露戦争Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
- —湾岸戦争Gulf War (1990-1991)
- —軍備競争arms race
- —自由競争free competition