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zhēng
HSK 3freq #2989

Meanings

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zhēng
  1. 1.to strive for
  2. 2.to vie for
  3. 3.to argue or debate
  4. 4.deficient or lacking (dialect)
  5. 5.how or what (literary)

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to remonstrate; to admonish; to expostulate; to criticize somebody's faults frankly
  2. 2.to quarrel; to argue; to contend; to dispute

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsreːŋs): semantic 言 (“say”) + phonetic 爭 (OC *ʔsreːŋ).

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