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zhèng
  1. 1.to admonish
  2. 2.to warn sb of their errors
  3. 3.to criticize frankly
  4. 4.Taiwan pr. [zhēng]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to dispute; to fight
  2. 2.to contend
  3. 3.to strive
  4. 4.to lack; to be missing; still have; remaining
  5. 5.to have a difference (expressed in conjunction with terms of physical distance)
  6. 6.argumentative
  7. 7.to open up
  8. 8.to owe
  9. 9.because; due to; so that
  10. 10.capable
  11. 11.to argue for the sake of arguing
  12. 12.different
  13. 13.to have reservations
  14. 14.25th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "contention" (𝌞)
  15. 15.why, how
  16. 16.Original form of 諍/诤 (zhèng, “to admonish”).

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – two hands on a plowshare. The two hands are still visibile on top of the character (爪 and 彐), while the plowshare looks like a vertical hook in modern writing. ; "to dispute; to fight; to contend; to strive" ; "to lack; to owe"

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