競
jìng

compete

竞 (競) jìng
compete verb
To vie with others for superiority, a prize, or a specific position, often in a formal contest or market.

这些企业正在为获得政府合同而激烈竞标。

zhè​xiē qǐ​yè zhèng​zài wèi huò​dé zhèng​fǔ hé​tong ér jī​liè jìng biāo.

These companies are bidding fiercely for government contracts.

contend expression
To struggle or strive against rivals, particularly within the context of natural or abstract processes.

物竞天择是自然界演化的基本法则。

wù jìng tiān​zé shì zì​rán​jiè yǎn​huà de jī​běn fǎ​zé.

Natural selection is the fundamental law of biological evolution.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,100th most common 133.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,273rd most common 62.5 per million appears in 21% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.28 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
20.8 per million

Details
Simplified
竞
Strokes
20
Unicode
U+7AF6

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