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  *争* | 争* | *争
to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary)
HSK 3
war; conflict / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
to compete / competition
HSK 5
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
to resist / to make a stand and fight (against)
HSK 7-9
to work hard for / to do all one can / to contend strongly
HSK 7-9
to dispute
to vie against one another / to fight each other / mutual aggression
(idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs
to contend on strong grounds / to argue strongly for what is right
seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose / every moment counts
argument / debate / controversy
to fight desperately
widely known / incontestable / undeniable / to not strive for / to not contend for
class struggle
Korean War (1950-1953)
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
to argue / to dispute
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
(Persian) Gulf War
Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945
(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
market competition
the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu
unfair competition / illicit competition
war of independence
the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors
war on terrorism
civil war / internal struggle
lit. two tigers fighting (idiom) / fig. fierce contest between evenly matched adversaries
the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage
war of aggression
the Six-Day War of June 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbors
to dispute / to struggle for mastery
war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government
Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam)
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
war of 1915 against Yuan Shikai and for the Republic
term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气 and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气
American War of Independence (1775-1783)
lit. the ant fights, the snail contends (idiom); fig. petty squabbling
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
succession struggle / dispute over inheritance
second Manchu invasion of Korea (1636)
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
the Crimean War (1853-1856)
internal power struggle
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
fair competition
the Korean War (started June 25 1950)
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
to settle a dispute
power struggle
power struggle
righteous struggle
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
direct competitor / direct competition
confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction
constant bickering and fighting (idiom); constantly at each other's throats / struggle for personal gain
National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 as emperor
National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor


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