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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
- —国際紛争international dispute
- —受験戦争examination war; fiercely competitive university entrance examinations
- —戦争状態state of war
- —独立戦争war of independence
- —日中戦争Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945); war between Japan and China
- —労使紛争industrial (labor-management) dispute (labour); industrial strife
- —家庭争議domestic dispute; family trouble
- —国際競争global competition
- —戦争計画war plan
- —戦争準備war preparation
- —戦争責任war responsibility (esp. in relation to Japan's role in WWII)
- —戦争戦略war strategy
- —戦争被害war damage
- —通常戦争conventional war
- —競争場裡arena of competition
- —真贋論争argument as to (about) the authenticity (of ...)
- —政治抗争political strife (antagonism, conflict)
- —派閥抗争factional infighting (conflict); antagonism between factions
- —中日戦争Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- —日華戦争Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)