竞 競
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 競, the traditional character: 竞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他试着赢得竞赛。
He endeavored to win the contest.
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在奥运会的竞赛中，金牌代表第一名，银牌代表第二名，铜牌是第三名。
In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.
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我爸爸参加了料理竞赛并得了第一名。
My father participated in a cooking contest and came in first.