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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
- —祖国戦争Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
- —タラ戦争Cod Wars (UK-Iceland confrontations over fishing rights; 1958, 1971, 1975)
- —中越戦争Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
- —中東戦争Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973)
- —農民戦争German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
- —独仏戦争Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871)
- —箱館戦争Battle of Hakodate (battle of the Boshin War; 1868-1869)
- —百年戦争Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
- —普墺戦争Austro-Prussian War (1866)
- —米英戦争War of 1812
- —戊辰戦争Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces; 1868-1869)
- —北方戦争Great Northern War (1700-1721)
- —露土戦争Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
- —米墨戦争Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
- —普遍論争(debate over) the problem of universals
- —回線争奪contention
- —文化闘争Kulturkampf (church-state conflict in Prussia; 1872-1887)
- —戦争保険war-risk insurance; war insurance
- —神聖戦争Sacred Wars (of Ancient Greece)
- —熱い戦争hot war