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Simplified: 争

On the HSK 5 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B2.

zhēng ㄓㄥ

    • to strive for
    • to vie for
    • to argue or debate
    • deficient or lacking (dialect)
    • how or what (literary)

Other words read zhēng

In the same tone

  • 正 zhēng first month of the lunar year
  • 怔 zhēng startled
  • 睜 zhēng open
  • 徵 zhēng invite
  • 蒸 zhēng evaporate

All 12 words read zhēng

zheng with other tones

  • 証 zhèng admonish
  • 證 zhèng certificate
  • 政 zhèng political
  • 整 zhěng whole
  • 鄭 zhèng surname Zheng

All 20 words read zheng in any tone

How 爭 is written

    部首 radical
    爫 a form of 爪
    笔画 strokes
    8, with 4 after the 部首
    结构 structure
    上下结构
    偏旁 parts
    爫彐亅

    Words with 爭

    Starting with 爭

    All 45 words starting with 爭

    Ending with 爭

    • 戰爭 zhànzhēng war
    • 鬥爭 dòuzhēng struggle
    • 競爭 jìngzhēng compete
    • 抗日戰爭 kàngrìzhànzhēng War of Resistance against Japan
    • 解放戰爭 jiěfàngzhànzhēng War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蒋介石

    All 66 words ending with 爭

    Containing 爭

    • 競爭力 jìngzhēnglì competitive strength
    • 競爭者 jìngzhēngzhě competitor
    • 百家爭鳴 bǎijiāzhēngmíng hundred schools of thought contend
    • 競爭性 jìngzhēngxìng competitive
    • 明爭暗鬥 míngzhēngàndòu fight openly and maneuver covertly

    All 23 words containing 爭

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