爭 (zhēng)
to strive for/to argue/to compete
How 爭 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 爫 — claw/talon
- Traditional
- 爭
- Simplified
- 争
Components
- 爫 claw/talon
- ⺕ pig snout
- 亅 hook
Common words using 爭
- 戰爭 zhànzhēng
- war; conflict; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
- 爭取 zhēngqǔ
- to fight for; to strive for; to win over
- 爭吵 zhēngchǎo
- dispute; strife
- 爭奪 zhēngduó
- to fight over; to contest; to vie over
- 爭氣 zhēngqì
- to work hard for sth; to resolve on improvement; determined not to fall short
- 競爭 jìngzhēng
- to compete; competition
- 不爭 bùzhēng
- widely known; incontestable; undeniable
- 不爭氣 bùzhēngqì
- be disappointing; fail to live up to expectations
- 力爭 lìzhēng
- to work hard for; to do all one can; to contend strongly
- 抗爭 kàngzhēng
- to resist; to make a stand and fight (against)
- 爭先恐後 zhēngxiānkǒnghòu
- striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
- 爭分奪秒 zhēngfēnduómiǎo
- lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count
爭 in a sentence
你們不要為了這種小事爭吵。
Nǐmen bùyào wèile zhè zhǒng xiǎoshì zhēngchǎo.
“You guys shouldn't argue over such small things.”
How common is 爭?
爭 is the 344th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 67.7% of all running text.
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