争
zhēng HSK3

strife, quarrel

争 爭 zhēng
to strive nounverb
to strive for; to vie for; to compete for something with others
to argue verb
to argue; to debate; to disagree or be at odds with someone

我甚至不知道你俩在争什么。

wǒ shèn​zhì bù​zhī​dào nǐ liǎ zài zhēng shén​me.

I don't even know what you two are arguing about.

to be short of
(dialect) to be short of; to be wanting; to be lacking
how
(literary) how; why; used similarly to 怎 zěn
surname
a Chinese surname
to differ
to differ; to fall short of a standard; to have a discrepancy

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
344th most common 643.0 per million
Movie subtitles
643rd most common 212.6 per million appears in 56% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
18.3 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
49.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
爭
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+4E89

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)