争

zhēng · zheng

Traditional 爭

Meaning

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  1. to strive for
  2. to vie for
  3. to argue or debate
  4. deficient or lacking (dialect)
  5. how or what (literary)

In a sentence

2 examples
01

不(bú)必(bì)争(zhēng),没(méi)有(yǒu)事(shì)情(qing)是(shì)只(zhǐ)有(yǒu)坏(huài)处(chu)而(ér)没(méi)有(yǒu)好(hǎo)处(chu)的(de).

No need to argue, there is nothing that only has bad effects and no benefits.

Tatoeba: Chinese by pocket_lab · English by weihaiping · CC BY 2.0 FR. Simplified Chinese conversion; Pinyin added or corrected.

02

兄(xiōng)弟(dì)俩(liǎ)为(wèi)了(le)遗(yí)产(chǎn)争(zhēng)了(le)好(hǎo)几(jǐ)年(nián)。

The two brothers argued over the inheritance for years.

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