爭

See also: 争

§Translingual

§Han character

爭 (radical 87 爪+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月尸木 (BSD), four-corner 2050₇)

1. to dispute, fight
2. contend
3. strive

§References

• KangXi: page 688, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19663
• Dae Jaweon: page 1101, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2031, character 3
• Unihan data for U+722D

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§Chinese

		-
trad.		爭
simp.		争

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhēng, zhèng (zheng¹, zheng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥ, ㄓㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaang¹, zang¹, caang¹
• Min Nan (POJ): cheⁿ / chiⁿ / cheng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: chêng¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeng
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chêng⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenq
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaang¹, zang¹, caang¹
    • Yale: jāang, jāng, chāang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaang¹, dzang¹, tsaang¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑːŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰɑːŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheⁿ / chiⁿ / cheng
    • Tâi-lô: tsenn / tsinn / tsing
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sẽ⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕĩ⁴⁴/, /t͡ɕɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sẽ³⁴/, /t͡ɕĩ³⁴/, /t͡ɕɪŋ³⁴/
  • Note: cheⁿ/chiⁿ - vernacular, cheng - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (爭, reconstructed)
Character (爭), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 莊 (18) Final: 耕 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 側莖切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ʃɣɛŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂæŋ/	/t͡ʃɛŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂɯæŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂəɨjŋ/	/t͡ʃæŋ/	/t͡ʃɐŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (爭, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
爭								zhēng								‹ tsrɛng ›								/*[ts]ˤreŋ (~ *m-tsˤreŋ or *mə- tsˤreŋ)/								strife, quarrel
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

§Compounds

• 爭論 (zhēnglùn)

§References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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§Japanese

§Kanji

爭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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§Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: あらそう (arasou)

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§Korean

§Hanja

爭 (jaeng) (hangeul 쟁, revised jaeng, McCune-Reischauer chaeng, Yale cayng)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

爭 (tranh, dềnh, ganh, giành, chanh, danh, dành, gianh)

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