争夺战 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zhēng strife, quarrel Simplified

Simplified form of 爭. Depicts two hands (爫又) grabbing the same plow.

Components

爫 Iconic Simplified component

zhǎo hand, claw

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 爫 than it was in ancient scripts.

又 Iconic component

yòu hand

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 又 than it was in ancient scripts.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a plow.

Component uses

Sound (2 of 10 verified)

静净挣睁铮筝狰诤峥錚

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

挣诤

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

duó take by force Simplified

Simplified form of 奪. Depicts a hand (寸) snatching a bird (隹). The top component was originally 衣 (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either 兌 or 大.

Components

大 Sound component

dà, dài big

隹 Deleted component

zhuī, cuī, wéi bird

寸 Iconic component

cùn, cun (hand), inch

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

zhàn war Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 戈 represents the meaning and 占 represents the sound. Simplified form of 戰.

Components

占 Sound component

zhàn divine

戈 Meaning component

gē spear

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

zhēng strife, quarrel Traditional

Depicts two hands (爫又) grabbing the same plow.

Components

爫 Iconic component

zhǎo hand, claw

爫 is a component form of 爪.

又 Iconic component

yòu hand

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 又 than it was in ancient scripts.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a plow.

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (3 of 8 verified)

靜箏崢掙凈淨睜猙

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

掙

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsreang	[ts]ˤreŋ (~ m-tsˤreŋ or mə-tsˤreŋ)	strife, quarrel

說文解字

《說文》：“爭，引也。从、厂。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

duó take by force Traditional

Depicts a hand (寸) snatching a bird (隹). The top component was originally 衣 (clothes), depicting a person holding a bird in their clothes, but later it was reanalyzed as a phonetic component, written as either 兌 or 大.